Civil Quotes
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.
For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.
I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.
Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!
Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice.
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority of whites didn't have any.
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.
My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.
For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.
I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.