Civil Quotes

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

My heart beats red, white, and blue. And with patriotism it aches Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights But in particular, cupcakes

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.