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

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg. — Victoria Gray Adams

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty. — John Mackey

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. — Andrew Taylor Still

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

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

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln

If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country — Sunday Adelaja

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. — Rebecca Solnit

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. — Thomas Jefferson

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. — Emmeline Pankhurst

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

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

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. — Francis Bacon

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. — Douglas Brinkley

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights. — Arthur C. Brooks

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city. — Julian Bond

I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it — Sarah Rees Brennan

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. — Ian Paisley

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri Rousseau

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions. — Anthony Trollope

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo — Rossana Condoleo

Headquarters in the Saddle. — John Pope

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. — Baruch Spinoza

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening. — Colin Powell

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

In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently. — Trent Lott

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. — Jennifer Chiaverini

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm. — Hannah Arendt

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. — Peter DeFazio

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world. — Rand Paul

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. — George Takei

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it. — T Bone Burnett

WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS ...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT! — Widad Akreyi

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

I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans. — Tony Tan

I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. — Ellen Page

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8. — Kamala Harris

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. — Shaun King

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. — Kofi Annan

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer

When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25. — Michael Savage

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making. — Aniruddha Sastikar

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount

The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers. — Lindsey Davis

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel. — Ayelet Shaked

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. — George McGovern

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution. — Clint Johnson

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. — Rand Paul

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with. — Rand Paul

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home. — Aldis Hodge

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

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe. — Mark Shields

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful. — John Lewis

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke

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. — Jack Kemp

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst. — Edna Buchanan

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans. — Anonymous

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites. — Edmund Burke

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society. — Christina Baldwin

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. — Dennis Kucinich

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

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. — Victor Hugo

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. — Len Deighton

That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused. — Thomas Jefferson

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. — James Gibbons

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. — Bernie Sanders

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman. — Joseph P. Bradley

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence. — Marianne Williamson

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars. — Various

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions. — Ali Gomaa

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

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out. — Anne Moody

Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war. — Charles Duhigg

Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation — Sunday Adelaja

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure, — Ken Follett

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society. — Mark Levin