Civil Quotes

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

**** it, holler them across.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Slavery can never be abolished.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

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

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

Well, it made you famous.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

I would not open windows into men's souls.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

the better angels of our nature

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.