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To think that a Catholic bishop must answer to a civil authority over matters of faith is abominable. It is abhorrent to me, to other Catholics, and to every member of every faith community.
Andrew Scheer
Faith
Me
Matters
Community
Every
Think
Other
Bishop
Member
Must
Abhorrent
Civil
Over
Catholic
Catholics
Answer
Authority
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Andrew Young
Rights
Heroes
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Unsung
Always
Mothers
Wives
Were
Movement
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.
Andrew Zimmern
War
Family
Wonderful
Sides
Has-Been
City
Civil
Born
Civil War
Both
Both Sides
Had
Since
New
Been
Wonderful Childhood
York
Childhood
New York
New York City
Ton
Raised
I am for registered civil partnerships.
Angela Merkel
Civil
Partnerships
Am
Registered
This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.
Angela Rye
Progress
Country
Respectful
Civil
Another
Going
Decent
Conversations
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
Angelo Scola
God
Respect
People
Law
Power
Civil
Objective
Divine
Reference
Authorities
Show
Origin
Serve
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
Angus Deaton
Innovative
Claim
Civil
No Guarantee
Properly
Entrepreneurs
Ideas
Without
Courts
Rewards
Guarantee
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Me
Battle
Law
Year
Resolve
Telling
Would
Phrase
Civil
Rather
Point
Students
Developed
Force
Begin
Than
Did
Procedure
Which
Teach
Etiquette
Used
Captured
Peaceful
Originate
Professor
Disputes
Societies
We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.
Anne Hathaway
Life
Attitude
Death
Day
News
People
World
Single
Every
Assume
Starving
Citizens
Easy
Civil
Civil Wars
Put
Towards
Come
Read
Blinders
Single Day
Forget
Going
So Many People
Where
Far
Choose
Wars
Many
Compassionate
Every Single Day
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Anson Mount
Education
War
History
Our
Civil
Civil War
Part
Around
South
Huge
Up
Huge Part
American
Grew
American History
Forgiveness became a big part of the civil rights movement, juxtaposed against the violence of protesters and law enforcement. King described forgiveness in one of his early sermons as a pardon, a process of life, and the Christian weapon of social redemption.
Anthea Butler
Life
Forgiveness
Rights
Law
King
Big
Christian
Rights Movement
Weapon
Civil
Law Enforcement
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Pardon
Part
Redemption
Became
His
Big Part
Movement
Process
Against
Social
Enforcement
Sermons
Early
Violence
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the seminary in the 1920s.
Anthea Butler
Rights
First
Enter
Rights Movement
Would
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Segregated
Priests
Catholic
Prior
Contingent
Were
Seminary
Movement
African-American
Large
Many
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in the press of the civil rights movement is truncated with the briefest of histories of men like Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, or John Lewis.
Anthea Butler
Vote
Rights
Women
Black
King
Men
Press
Rights Movement
John
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Like
Narrative
Histories
Jackson
Movement
Again
Rote
Fought
Jesse Jackson
Right
Suffrage
Lewis
Luther
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Anthony Lewis
War
Constitution
Law
Free
Civil
Civil War
Exception
Terrible
America
Whole
Kept
The second we started talking about doing the 'Civil War' storyline with Marvel, we brought up Spider-Man. Right away, Kevin Feige hinted to us there might be a possibility of them being able to work that out, and that's all we needed - he was in the movie the second we heard that.
Anthony Russo
Work
War
Possibility
Out
Spider-Man
Civil
Able
Brought
About
Civil War
Marvel
He
Talking
Doing
Heard
Up
Being
Movie
Storyline
Them
Might
Us
Away
Right
Right Away
Second
Started
Needed
Kevin
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
Antonin Scalia
Today
Rights
Will
Sex
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
Court
Often
Process
Title
Race
Converting
Act
Basis
Guarantee
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.
Antony Beevor
Politics
Service
History
Law
Discipline
Economics
Important
International Relations
Relations
Further
Sector
Civil
Purely
Civil Service
Students
Almost
Almost All
Ideal
Also
Practical
Because
Go
Private
Provides
Private Sector
Skills
International
Basic
Level
Sociology
Needed
Careers
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
Archie Shepp
Time
Rights
Political
Revolution
Jazz
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Part
Exciting
Exciting Time
Particularly
Becoming
Artistic
Movement
Establishment
Interesting
Turned
European
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
Arthur Hertzberg
War
Government
Fight
Jews
Jihad
Several
Kinds
Civil
Guns
Civil War
Call
West
West Bank
Off
Bank
Being
Orders
Against
Disobey
Teaching
Fundamentalism
Jewish
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
Asif Ali Zardari
People
Wife
Party
Nation
Our
Strife
Would
Civil
Threatened
Take
Had
Federation
Been
Existence
Very
Close
After
Asked
Assassination
Streets
Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.
Asin
Doctor
Mother
Surgeon
Father
Parents
Before
Civil
Both
Both My Parents
Well
Well-Educated
Becoming
Educated
Did
Want
Worked
Businessman
Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.
Audra McDonald
You
Man
Rights
Woman
Speak
Parents
Uncle
Out
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Look
Involved
Fellow
Fellow Man
Because
Always
Were
Up
Very
Child
Maybe
Just
Movement
Grew
Your
Raised
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
Augustus Sol Invictus
War
Myself
Great
Witness
Would
Civil
Born
Civil War
Great War
Coming
Years
Begin
American
Did
Second
I went to a school with the kids of judges and elected officials and architects, civil leaders, and influencers. And I felt very much a minority in every way. But it did expose me to incredible things.
Ayanna Pressley
Me
School
Minority
Every
Incredible
Way
Kids
Civil
Architects
Leaders
Judges
Felt
Very
Did
Officials
Elected
Elected Officials
Much
Expose
Things
Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.
Ayman Odeh
Struggle
Equality
Will
King
Jews
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Civil
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Join
Joined
Sure
Israel
Just
Luther
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
Ban Ki-moon
Business
Community
United Nations
Society
Civil
Civil Society
Properly
Main
Support
Learned
Without
Years
Governments
Five
Nations
Cannot
Business Community
Communities
Lessons
Function
United
Last
Need
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