Civil Quotes

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Conquer or be conquered.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.