Top 1200 Civil Liberties Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

Our crisis of the house divided was a Christian civil war.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc.

What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not true.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.

Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

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

Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.