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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.
The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.
I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.