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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.
Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.
A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.