Top 1200 Civil Liberties Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

If people are more civil about games, that'd make me super happy.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.

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