Top 1200 Civil Liberties Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born.

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.

We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.

A lot of people are concerned about, for example, the ability of big government to inhibit our liberties and choice. Big data can engineer a situation that limits our choice and our freedom. And it's not a partisan issue.

One of the many important roles of the Department of Justice is to represent the United States in civil and criminal trials.

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituencies.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.