Top 1200 Civil Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

I certainly support civil unions.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

You either have a civil society or you dont.

To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Our problem is civil obedience

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

There is no civil discourse left and it is really sad.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

The civil service are risk averse.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

All of my guy friends are pretty civil and tame.

The Civil War always moves me.

I believe health care is a civil right.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

You want one civil war, brah?

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

Civil society begins with the family.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

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

Sexual preference has nothing to do with civil rights.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of his congregation to integrate lunch counters and all-white churches in rich neighborhoods; they'd just march in and sit down at the pews and see what happened. Often they were received with racist insults, and once with a bomb threat. But the fact that you had this charismatic, white man, aggressively promoting racial equality, was a huge draw for African Americans, many of whom felt the Civil Rights Movement had stalled by the late 60s.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.