Civil Quotes

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.