Top 1200 Civil Liberties Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.

It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.

But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

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

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.

I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.

I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.

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

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.