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I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
I want to help with Muslim integration. If you follow the line of Marine Le Pen, you create a civil war.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.