Top 1200 Civil Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

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.

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

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

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

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

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

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

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

We must demand a more civil tone and tenor in our politics.

This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.

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

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

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

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

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

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

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

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

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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

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

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

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

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

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

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

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

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

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

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

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

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

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

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.