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It seemed like a good idea to support civil society. – Matt Herrick	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will sit outside the injunction area. We will stay true to the spirit of civil disobedience -- remain peaceful and bear the legal consequences of our action. – Alex Chow	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You don't have to go all the way back to the Civil Rights Movement to find an analogue, on the one hand, it's unfortunate. On the other hand, it's a really great thing that we have federal civil rights statutes. – Sherrilyn Ifill	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you see us getting on with the soldiers today, it is because these soldiers stuck to their mission, which was to protect, rather than shoot, the people, they will stay with us as they have shown proof of their loyalty to the people ... Otherwise we might have slipped into civil war. – Michel Kafando	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Through us Tamir will be heard from the grave, through peaceful protest, civil disobedience and legislation Tamir will be heard. – Michael Petty	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Lyndon Johnson made it very clear when he signed the Civil Rights Act back in 1964 what the impact was going to be on his party, the Democrats, and their relationship with southern white voters. – South Carolina	Found on CNN 9 years ago
He is an extraordinary surgeon, extraordinarily passionate human being, but I disagree with the personalization of a set of policies that have been harmful, not only to African-Americans, but the country as a whole with any particular party. ... Dr. Carson stands like a giant in the operating room, but in the civil rights arena we would love to have more conservation with him about our positions. – Cornell William Brooks	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was born in a war -- a civil war, so there's no such thing as childhood. – Mading Maker	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians. – Nathan Deal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Others of us are at the table not in spite of our actions in the patriotic protests but because of them. They are united by the shared passion to promote understanding, to hasten healing, to ensure equal opportunities in education and employment and to safeguard the civil rights of all our citizens. – Jay Nixon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. – William Wycherley	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse. – William Howard Taft	added by anonymous 10 years ago
At that time you were insulted by law clerks, excluded from white bar associations and when I was in court, I was lucky to be called Ben, usually it was just ‘boy.’ [But] the judges were always fair. The discrimination of those days has changed and, today, the South is ahead of the North in many respects in civil rights progress. – Benjamin Hooks	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Black Americans are not defeated, the civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks. – Benjamin Hooks	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. – Junius	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I'm gonna become a civil engineer. I'm gonna design septic tanks for playgrounds. Little kids can take shits! – Evan Goldberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. – Robert E. Lee	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred or leased, it must be recovered. I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such actions for the enforcement of the law. Counsel will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there is any fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced. And every right of the people and the Government will be protected. – Calvin Coolidge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. – Hubert Humphrey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in. – Gertrude Stein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. – Ulysses S. Grant	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
As American freemen we can not but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations. – Zachary Taylor	added by anonymous 10 years ago

It seemed like a good idea to support civil society.

– Matt Herrick

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We will sit outside the injunction area. We will stay true to the spirit of civil disobedience -- remain peaceful and bear the legal consequences of our action.

– Alex Chow

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You don't have to go all the way back to the Civil Rights Movement to find an analogue, on the one hand, it's unfortunate. On the other hand, it's a really great thing that we have federal civil rights statutes.

– Sherrilyn Ifill

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If you see us getting on with the soldiers today, it is because these soldiers stuck to their mission, which was to protect, rather than shoot, the people, they will stay with us as they have shown proof of their loyalty to the people ... Otherwise we might have slipped into civil war.

– Michel Kafando

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Through us Tamir will be heard from the grave, through peaceful protest, civil disobedience and legislation Tamir will be heard.

– Michael Petty

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Lyndon Johnson made it very clear when he signed the Civil Rights Act back in 1964 what the impact was going to be on his party, the Democrats, and their relationship with southern white voters.

– South Carolina

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He is an extraordinary surgeon, extraordinarily passionate human being, but I disagree with the personalization of a set of policies that have been harmful, not only to African-Americans, but the country as a whole with any particular party. ... Dr. Carson stands like a giant in the operating room, but in the civil rights arena we would love to have more conservation with him about our positions.

– Cornell William Brooks

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I was born in a war -- a civil war, so there's no such thing as childhood.

– Mading Maker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

– Nathan Deal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Others of us are at the table not in spite of our actions in the patriotic protests but because of them. They are united by the shared passion to promote understanding, to hasten healing, to ensure equal opportunities in education and employment and to safeguard the civil rights of all our citizens.

– Jay Nixon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

– William Wycherley

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.

– William Howard Taft