Civil Quotes
I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.
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.
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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 Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.
Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
