Civil Quotes

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

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.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

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.

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 three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Press on, press on, men.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!