Civil Quotes

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

It was not war, it was murder.

There's the devil to pay.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

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

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

Without justice, there can be no peace.

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

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Being able to laugh got me through.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.