Civil Quotes

To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people.

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

If not now, then when?

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice.

every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!

If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country

An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

Right isn't always legal.

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.