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If they had simply knocked on the door of the Pott household, apologized, accepted responsibility and jumped headfirst into our quest to educate our youth by, for example, speaking at high schools about the mistakes they made and how this can be prevented, there would be no civil lawsuit. – Bob Allard	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We underestimated their external influence, since after the civil war we've not fought any war, we don't manufacture weapons, so we had to look for help to re-equip our army and the air force. – Goodluck Jonathan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Since after the civil war we've not fought any war, we don't manufacture weapons, so we had to look for help to re-equip our army and the air force. – Goodluck Jonathan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
These were first Russian fighters intercepted by NATO's Baltic air police this year, civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew. – Viktorija Cieminyte	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew. – Viktorija Cieminyte	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The goal of the military campaign is to integrate the diverse paths of the struggle -- the armed uprising and civil disobedience -- in order to stop the elections and bring down the autocratic system. – Arnaud Lodi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It wasn't the civil unrest that got me making this documentary. It was the protests, these momentous, courageous protests, you know, unprecedented numbers of people. Ordinary men and women in India who took to the streets across India's cities to cry, 'Enough is enough. We will not have our women unsafe. We will not have our women disrespected.' And for me, India was actually leading the world by example. This is what took me out there. – Filmmaker Leslee Udwin	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
His behavior is a result of his influence of the fraternity system and the traditions that have been embedded since pre-civil war times, when the fraternity was made, which obviously weren't the most tolerant times. – Matthew Lopez	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A very important part of the lexicon of civil rights law is that you cannot create a hostile environment where you make it so people of different races or religions or women feel they can't function at your institution without being subjected to unlawful discrimination. – Barbara Arnwine	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It was not that Claude was some flaming liberal or liberator, he just liked a good story and liked to have it first. And frequently he was reporting on injustice and they knew, on the civil rights side, that if The New York Times wrote about it, it would get attention from important people. – Hank Klibanoff	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I thought, by God, that's the end of us, he did not flinch and he didn't back down. He was a brave man. But he was more than just brave. He was a first-rate journalist. When Claude was around, we all gathered in his room to compare notes. He was the kind of unofficial squad leader of the reporters covering civil rights. – Bill Ship	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This includes better sharing of critical information about security risks to civil aviation. – Tony Tyler	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can see how progress is made by looking at what happened this weekend in Selma, Alabama, where our country is marking a historic anniversary of the long march towards equality and a more perfect union, and also recommitting to carry the cause forward into the 21st century, so whether it's women's rights or human rights, civil rights or LGBT rights, we're counting on all of you to lead the way, and that's what the no-ceilings initiative at the Clinton Foundation is really all about. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
But I rejected the notion that nothing’s changed, what happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it’s no longer endemic, or sanctioned by law and custom. And before the Civil Rights Movement, it most surely was. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history -- the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher -- met on this bridge. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Not just the legends and the giants of the Civil Rights Movement like Dr. King and John Lewis, but the countless American heroes whose names aren't in the history books that aren't etched on marble somewhere — ordinary men and women from all corners of this nation, all walks of life, black and white, rich and poor, students, scholars, maids, ministers — all who marched and who sang and organized to change this country for the better. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They targeted the civil airport in Ras Lanuf, and oil tanks in Es Sidra. The rockets fell near the tanks, resulting in only minor damage. – Ali Hassi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is an indication of a climate at least inside of Russia in which civil society, independent journalists, people trying to communicate on the Internet, have felt increasingly threatened, constrained. And increasingly the only information that the Russian public is able to get is through state-controlled media outlets. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we can stop the campaign of hate that's being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not, then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict, the authorities are corrupt and don't allow any threats to them to emerge. Boris was uncomfortable for them. – Gennady Gudkov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every major social movement, every bit of progress in this country, whether it's been the workers' rights movement or the civil rights movement or the women's rights movement, every single bit of that progress had required us to fight and to push and you make progress, you don't get everything right away, and then you push some more. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I’ve never seen a federal prosecutorial authority appear as an interested party in a civil matter. – Jason Turchin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The court realized its fishy to use a financial fraud statute, carrying up to 20 years in prison, to prosecute a commercial fisherman who otherwise would have been subject at most to a civil crime and the temporary loss of his fishing license. – Lawyer Bradley Bondi	Found on CNN 9 years ago
When you start omitting things, you're censoring things, i was shocked. They had civil rights and Black Panthers, but not Rosa Parks. What's left out smells of agenda. – Ken Mercer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will remain vigilant as we continue fighting for civil and human rights in Colorado Springs and throughout the country. – Thaddeus Murphy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

If they had simply knocked on the door of the Pott household, apologized, accepted responsibility and jumped headfirst into our quest to educate our youth by, for example, speaking at high schools about the mistakes they made and how this can be prevented, there would be no civil lawsuit.

– Bob Allard

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We underestimated their external influence, since after the civil war we've not fought any war, we don't manufacture weapons, so we had to look for help to re-equip our army and the air force.

– Goodluck Jonathan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Since after the civil war we've not fought any war, we don't manufacture weapons, so we had to look for help to re-equip our army and the air force.

– Goodluck Jonathan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These were first Russian fighters intercepted by NATO's Baltic air police this year, civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew.

– Viktorija Cieminyte

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew.

– Viktorija Cieminyte

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The goal of the military campaign is to integrate the diverse paths of the struggle -- the armed uprising and civil disobedience -- in order to stop the elections and bring down the autocratic system.

– Arnaud Lodi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It wasn't the civil unrest that got me making this documentary. It was the protests, these momentous, courageous protests, you know, unprecedented numbers of people. Ordinary men and women in India who took to the streets across India's cities to cry, 'Enough is enough. We will not have our women unsafe. We will not have our women disrespected.' And for me, India was actually leading the world by example. This is what took me out there.

– Filmmaker Leslee Udwin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

His behavior is a result of his influence of the fraternity system and the traditions that have been embedded since pre-civil war times, when the fraternity was made, which obviously weren't the most tolerant times.

– Matthew Lopez

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A very important part of the lexicon of civil rights law is that you cannot create a hostile environment where you make it so people of different races or religions or women feel they can't function at your institution without being subjected to unlawful discrimination.

– Barbara Arnwine

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It was not that Claude was some flaming liberal or liberator, he just liked a good story and liked to have it first. And frequently he was reporting on injustice and they knew, on the civil rights side, that if The New York Times wrote about it, it would get attention from important people.

– Hank Klibanoff

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I thought, by God, that's the end of us, he did not flinch and he didn't back down. He was a brave man. But he was more than just brave. He was a first-rate journalist. When Claude was around, we all gathered in his room to compare notes. He was the kind of unofficial squad leader of the reporters covering civil rights.

– Bill Ship

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This includes better sharing of critical information about security risks to civil aviation.

– Tony Tyler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You can see how progress is made by looking at what happened this weekend in Selma, Alabama, where our country is marking a historic anniversary of the long march towards equality and a more perfect union, and also recommitting to carry the cause forward into the 21st century, so whether it's women's rights or human rights, civil rights or LGBT rights, we're counting on all of you to lead the way, and that's what the no-ceilings initiative at the Clinton Foundation is really all about.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

But I rejected the notion that nothing’s changed, what happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it’s no longer endemic, or sanctioned by law and custom. And before the Civil Rights Movement, it most surely was.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In one afternoon 50 years ago, so much of our turbulent history -- the stain of slavery and anguish of civil war; the yoke of segregation and tyranny of Jim Crow; the death of four little girls in Birmingham, and the dream of a Baptist preacher -- met on this bridge.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Not just the legends and the giants of the Civil Rights Movement like Dr. King and John Lewis, but the countless American heroes whose names aren't in the history books that aren't etched on marble somewhere — ordinary men and women from all corners of this nation, all walks of life, black and white, rich and poor, students, scholars, maids, ministers — all who marched and who sang and organized to change this country for the better.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They targeted the civil airport in Ras Lanuf, and oil tanks in Es Sidra. The rockets fell near the tanks, resulting in only minor damage.

– Ali Hassi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is an indication of a climate at least inside of Russia in which civil society, independent journalists, people trying to communicate on the Internet, have felt increasingly threatened, constrained. And increasingly the only information that the Russian public is able to get is through state-controlled media outlets.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we can stop the campaign of hate that's being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not, then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict, the authorities are corrupt and don't allow any threats to them to emerge. Boris was uncomfortable for them.

– Gennady Gudkov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Every major social movement, every bit of progress in this country, whether it's been the workers' rights movement or the civil rights movement or the women's rights movement, every single bit of that progress had required us to fight and to push and you make progress, you don't get everything right away, and then you push some more.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I’ve never seen a federal prosecutorial authority appear as an interested party in a civil matter.

– Jason Turchin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The court realized its fishy to use a financial fraud statute, carrying up to 20 years in prison, to prosecute a commercial fisherman who otherwise would have been subject at most to a civil crime and the temporary loss of his fishing license.

– Lawyer Bradley Bondi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When you start omitting things, you're censoring things, i was shocked. They had civil rights and Black Panthers, but not Rosa Parks. What's left out smells of agenda.

– Ken Mercer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We will remain vigilant as we continue fighting for civil and human rights in Colorado Springs and throughout the country.

– Thaddeus Murphy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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