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We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.
Brianna Wu
Reckless
Introduce
Security
Civil
Vulnerabilities
Ship
Products
Companies
Need
Liability
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
Bruce Hornsby
Rights
People
Song
Country
Way
Civil
Civil Rights
Take
Wrote
Move
Wanted
Stand
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Bryan Cranston
Rights
Oppression
Kind
Civil
Civil Rights
Wrong
Any
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
Carles Puigdemont
Future
Democracy
Vote
Rights
Independence
Free
Out
Carry
Civil
Civil Rights
About
Self-Determination
Greatest
Want
Expression
Fundamental
Right
Universal
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
Carles Puigdemont
Government
Freedom
Rights
Values
Freedom Of Speech
Civil
Civil Rights
Being
Central
Spain
Central Government
European
Assembly
Violated
Speech
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
Carol Moseley Braun
You
Rights
Generation
Racism
Victory
Made
Important
Rights Movement
Embrace
Unpopular
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Had
Get
Movement
Whereas
Anything
Turn
Century
Elected
Really
Last
Last Century
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
Carol Moseley Braun
Rights
Women
People
Think
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
More
Color
Open
Non-Traditional
Legacy
Candidates
Movement
Being
Again
Whites
Who
Now
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
Caroline Kennedy
Great
Justice
Rights
Generation
Women
People
Father
Think
Civil
Civil Rights
Inspired
Through
He
Equal
Equal Justice
Passed
America
Children
Transformed
Grandchildren
I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.
Carrie Lam
Politician
Civil
Civil Servant
Over
Been
Years
Servant
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
Cary Fukunaga
War
Age
Before
Bit
Civil
Civil War
Like
Method
Done
I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was considered very authentic. We would source the right wools, the right buttons for the costumes. We had the right look.
Cary Fukunaga
War
Considered
Would
Civil
Civil War
Costumes
Had
Part
Between
Look
Source
Very
Authentic
Ages
Used
Unit
Right
Buttons
My parents are civil, but they don't keep in touch or hang out or anything. If they're in the same room together and are around each other, they're totally fine and act like adults.
Cassadee Pope
Together
Parents
Other
Out
Fine
Civil
Totally
Touch
Adult
Like
Around
Same
Hang
Anything
Room
Act
Each
Keep
My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my dad got a job at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada, so we moved there.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Health
Mom
Old
Job
Nurse
High
Ministry
Civil
Civil Servant
Got
Years
Canada
Commission
Moved
Worked
Dad
Servant
Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.
Charles B. Rangel
Freedom
Justice
Rights
Focus
King
Jobs
Dream
Civil
Civil Rights
Delivered
Beyond
Call
Traditional
Movement
Famous
Washington
March
Dr
Speech
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.
Charles B. Rangel
Rights
King
Montgomery
Beside
Civil
Some
Civil Rights
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Joseph
Most
Proud
Jackson
Notable
Activists
March
Jesse Jackson
Dr
Luther
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
Charles Edison
Service
Will
Made
Promises
Rise Above
Fall
Members
High
Civil
Civil Service
Rise
Above
Partisan
Bickering
Am
Demonstrate
Confident
Legislature
After
Public
Capacity
Last
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
Charles Hodge
God
People
Christ
Sense
Our
Ministers
Civil
Remark
Divine
Merely
Powers
Office
Authority
Ordained
Which
Derive
Second
Appointment
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
Charles Kennedy
War
History
People
Country
Doors
Civil
Unrest
Generations
Opening
Proud
Persecution
Personal
Fleeing
I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
Charlie Brooker
War
Society
Complete
Worry
Collapse
Civil
About
Having
Unrest
Falling
Flee
Europe
The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.
Cheryl Mills
Great
Change
Soul
Rights
Courage
Every
Changed
Folded
Civil
Civil Rights
Voices
Leaders
House
Heard
Person
Hands
Them
Who
Foundation
Intervening militarily would exacerbate - not resolve - the matter and, in the process, will Americanize the Syrian civil war.
Chris Gibson
War
Matter
Will
Resolve
Intervening
Syrian
Exacerbate
Would
Civil
Civil War
Process
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
Chuck Todd
War
History
Party
Obama
John
Civil
Civil War
John McCain
Could
Headed
Likely
Parties
Democrats
Messy
Prove
Any
McCain
Barack
Barack Obama
Republicans
Recent
Recent History
Two
The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
Claudio Hummes
Faith
Charity
Solidarity
Must
Civil
Itself
Form
Which
Express
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
Colm Toibin
War
Before
Mountains
Live
High
Civil
About
Civil War
More
Area
Knew
Between
Like
Liked
Around
Pillars
Irish
Than
Did
Grew
Place
Spanish
Flavors
Then
Barcelona
Even
Village
Twenty
When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
Colm Toibin
Time
You
Thought
Saw
Signed
Civil
Civil Servant
Inviting
Most
Course
IRA
Up
Campaigns
Exotic
Irish
Middle
Wanted
English
Servant
Bombing
Thing
Ad
Imagine
In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.
Colson Whitehead
You
Rights
King
Civil
Minutes
Civil Rights
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Era
Lincoln
Did
Grade
Might
Fifth
Slavery
Luther
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