Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We do need to think about how we have security - everyone has a right to that - but we also need to think about how we maintain civil rights and personal freedom.
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 libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.
Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.
Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.
School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers' rights.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.