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'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.
Tom Holland
War
Civil
Civil War
Thrown
Know
End
Going
Whirlwind
Really
Deep
Deep End
It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.
Tom Perez
Me
Rights
Reality
Promise
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
General
Allowed
Attorney
Attorney General
Make
Privilege
Role
Enforce
Act
Help
Serve
Assistant
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Tom Perez
Work
Service
Rights
Important
Members
Civil
Civil Rights
General
Part
Attorney
Attorney General
Protecting
Important Part
Assistant
Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.
Tom Perez
Rights
Enemies
Values
Civil
Civil Rights
Objectives
Shared
Also
Just
Common
Common Values
Union
Activists
We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bayard Rustin. And now, we must write the next chapter in the American civil rights story by drawing strength and inspiration from his moral courage.
Tom Perez
Strength
Rights
Courage
Chapter
Drawing
Telling
Moral
Must
Moral Courage
Civil
Civil Rights
Inspiration
Write
Without
Understand
His
Accomplished
American
Story
Next
Now
If President Obama or any president ever attempts gun confiscation in America, there should be and will be a second civil war.
Tom Tancredo
War
Will
Gun
President
President Obama
Obama
Civil
Civil War
Attempts
America
Any
Confiscation
Should
Ever
Second
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
Tony Blair
Me
Minister
Would
Civil
Civil Servants
Boss
Prime
Prime Minister
Call
Always
Downing
Servants
Street
That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.
Tony Campolo
You
Problem
Church
Become
Down
City
Religious
Solved
City Hall
Civil
Hall
Go
Legally
Gets
Then
Union
Europe
Connected
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
Tony Campolo
Government
Business
Legal
People
Unions
Out
Status
Marrying
Civil
Give
Only
Propose
Instead
Get
Should
The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.
Tony Evans
Rights
Church
Out
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Only
Mass
Came
Mobilization
Movement
Mechanism
Why
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
Tyler Cowen
Sometimes
Economics
Defense
Libertarian
Civil
Study
Inequality
Material
Selfishness
Celebrated
Egalitarian
Should
Associated
Core
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
Viktor Orban
Man
Together
Woman
Marriage
Hungary
Country
Live
Christian
Would
Civil
One-Man
Fact
Like
Call
Historical
Historical Fact
Code
Homosexuals
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.
Vint Cerf
Rights
People
Result
Internet
Ways
Scale
Introduced
Civil
Civil Rights
Allow
Sharing
New
Global
Obtaining
Exercise
Accessible
Egalitarian
New Ways
Human
Information
Creating
Platform
Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.
Vint Cerf
Appreciation
Rights
Protection
Internet
Pretending
Important
Human Rights
Must
Civil
Without
Access
Condition
Itself
Improve
Improving
Done
Human
Just
Just One
Human Condition
Which
Means
Deserve
Right
Albeit
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Wadada Leo Smith
You
Rights
Live
Rights Movement
Constantly
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Part
South
Movement
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there.
Walter F. Mondale
Life
Rights
Political
My Life
Earned
All My Life
Rights Movement
Moral
Religious
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Always
Proud
Been
Spurs
Movement
Where
Reasons
Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are pathological in their hatred of our civil rights.
Wayne LaPierre
Change
Rights
Blame
Will
Gun
Hatred
Long
Our
Way
City
Civil
Civil Rights
Bosses
Never
Chicago
Pathological
Owners
Victims
Then
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
Wil Wheaton
Key
Liberty
Society
Worst
Civil
Some
Civil Liberty
Cases
Also
Anonymity
Enables
Actor
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
William H. Wharton
Government
History
Suffering
Danger
Civil
Colonists
Attended
Over
Redemption
Pass
Cultivation
Condition
Conduct
Which
Turn
Lands
Toil
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
William Kunstler
War
Problems
Country
Closed
Down
Once
Civil
Be Real
Colleges
Civil War
Troops
Students
Like
Looked
Arms
Verge
Real
Cambodia
Were
Up
Very
Real Problems
Going
Move
Much
Many
Universities
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
William Odom
War
Once
Destroyed
Civil
Civil War
Knew
Saddam
Going
Regime
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
William Petty
War
Wealth
Men
Nation
Few
Too
Civil
Civil War
Steal
Also
Causes
Provided
Beg
Hands
Either
Certain
Means
Keep
Necessity
Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.
Winnie Byanyima
Design
Society
Ensure
Must
Civil
Vital
Civil Society
Delivery
Step
Governments
Up
Public
Assessment
Services
Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.
Winnie Byanyima
Space
Challenge
Made
Few
Society
Dissent
Ensure
Sector
Citizens
Civil
Civil Society
Participate
Majority
Without
Limited
Private
Provides
Governments
Private Sector
Account
Oxygen
Hold
Interest
Decisions
Meaningfully
Elites
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
Wole Soyinka
Ownership
Civil
Some
Civil Wars
Greatest
Mexico
Squarely
Centered
Land
Wars
Consequent
I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.
Yasmine Hamdan
War
Civil
Born
Civil War
Lebanon
Middle
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