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I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. - Henry A Wise Quotes
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. - Peter Defazio Quotes
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and womens rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. - Major Owens Quotes
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. - Samuel Adams Quotes
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. - James Rainwater Quotes
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. - William Odom Quotes
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. - Louis Leakey Quotes
I dont feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldnt do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. - Kevin Costner Quotes
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. - Lyman Trumbull Quotes
Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. - Marsha Blackburn Quotes
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy. - John Hutton Quotes
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. - Jonathan Mayhew Quotes
When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June. - Howard Coble Quotes
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. - Joseph Ratzinger Quotes
Our government just wont enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. - Major Owens Quotes
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. - Larry Craig Quotes
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. - Harri Holkeri Quotes
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948. - Gianni Agnelli Quotes
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. - Edmund Burke Quotes
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. - Bobby Scott Quotes
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. - W E B Du Bois Quotes
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I dont see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. - Suzanne Vega Quotes
However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. - Adam Rickitt Quotes
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. - William Blackstone Quotes
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. - Hannah Arendt Quotes
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. - Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. - John Milton Quotes
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. - George Mason Quotes
Now that its officially summer, heres my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. - Marvin Olasky Quotes
Im in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. - Jim Lehrer Quotes
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