Quotes with civil

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  • Hubert Humphrey There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Stokely Carmichael There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
    What we want (1966)
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Anthony Holden They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bayard Rustin We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Angelo Scola We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
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  • Adam Schiff We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Addison What dire effects from civil discord flow!
    Cato
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • John Milton When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bitsie Tulloch When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Bitsie Tulloch When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Bruce Hornsby When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • William Wycherley Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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