Civil Quotes

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

You either have a civil society or you dont.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.