Civil Quotes

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.