Quotes with civil

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  • Carol Ann Duffy If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bill Frist If Senator Reid had come to me and said, 'This is a problem,' which he never did, I would have said, 'Let's talk about it.' I would have said, 'Let's bring in the Intelligence Committee or the leaders, and let's talk about it in a civil, a dignified, a respectful way.
    Senate Goes Into Rare Closed Session, Fox News, November 1, 2005.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Adnan Pachachi If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Alcee Hastings If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bill Drayton In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Bob Edwards In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alfred Marshall Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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  • Hannah Arendt It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Baldwin Spencer It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Gore Vidal It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Busy Philipps It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Angela Davis Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • J. Selden Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.
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  • Bruce Springsteen My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Martin Luther No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
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