669 Civil Quotes for You to Enjoy

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. Constance Baker Motley

Rights King Leader Become Reckoning Civil Civil Rights Had New Media

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else. Coretta Scott King

Rights Human Being Sometimes Thought Leader Own Rich Human Rights Else Everyone Everyone Else Way Complex Would Civil Civil Rights Three-Dimensional My Own Like Identified Also Am Human Being Experiences Much Unique Activist

Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge. Coretta Scott King

Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. Coretta Scott King

Vote Rights Judge Achieve Chill Black Free Husband Long Power Awesome Citizens District Civil Civil Rights Seeks Federal Federal Judge He Leaders Box Exercise Access Ballot Ballot Box His Office Unfettered Turner Used Hard Including Fought Now Serve Albert

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. Corrine Brown

War News President Later Emancipation Signed Civil Civil War Abraham Abraham Lincoln Put Almost Reach Until Lincoln Years Effect Texas End Did After January Proclamation Enforcement Two

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman. Craig Ferguson

Gay Woman Unions Took Married Civil Wedding Vermont Where Place

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening! Cyndi Lauper

Family You Rights Speak Everything Civil See Civil Rights Taken Come Up Friends Family And Friends Being Where Happening Your Keep Away

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. Daisaku Ikeda

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. Dan Savage

Alone Gay People Equality Lesbian Our Way Civil Only Leave Issues Off Canadian Get Front Newspapers Pages Full Grant

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice. Dan Wakefield

Great Me You Justice Rights People Writing Great Deal Reading Nation Christian Saw Those Rights Movement Civil Magazine Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement About Reminded Term Days Also Wrote Deal Esquire Just Movement Meant Coffin Biography

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. Daniel Akaka

Government Generation Losing Nurture Enough Crisis Civil Civil Servants Only Federal Federal Government Develop Retire Talent Doing Decades Human Public Capital Next Next Generation Public Servants Servants

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. Daniel J. Evans

Degree Engineering Bachelor Civil Did Graduate Graduation

Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American grain farmers and auto manufacturers seeking advantage in the Mexican agriculture and labor markets in the 1990s, U.S. policy has reflected the economic clash of interests of the day. Danny K. Davis

War Day Struggle Agriculture Markets Clash Civil Seeking Civil War Colonies Economic Merchants Advantage Between Policy Mexican Reflected Labor Southern American Northern Auto Grain Whether Interests Farmers Manufacturers English Slave

I loathe the word 'celebrity,' and I hope I'm not a diva. Whenever I see diva-ish behaviour, I just leave the room; I find it appalling. You should always try to be civil to people. David Harewood

Hope You People Try Word Loathe Find Civil See Diva Always Leave Celebrity Behaviour Just Whenever Room Should Appalling

Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001. David K. Shipler

September Military Liberties Charge Obama Civil Civil Liberties Seemed He Smarter Since Likely Least George Eroded Led George W George W. Bush Left Than Behalf Beholden Eisenhower Barack Barack Obama Bush Less Pope Kennedy Portrayed

Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality. David Mixner

Struggle Rights Marriage Battle Equality Other Our Mine Relentless Marriage Equality Has-Been Responsible Civil Civil Rights More He Almost Courageous Forefront Dear Dear Friend Issue Been Friend Pioneer Than Any Who Bringing

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist. David Oyelowo

Work Great Character Me Rights Son Mother Amazing Wife Radical Incredibly Civil Civil Rights Exciting Because His Oprah Oprah Winfrey Forest June Role Get Again Script Activist Play Butler Start Phenomenal

I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty. David Shields

Natural Try Beauty Natural Beauty Civil Wired Hugely Seattle

From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life. David Shields

Life War Me Photography People World Say Kind Photographer Civil Brown Civil War Seems Through Like Robert Tim Malcolm Brady Matthew Where Vietnam Page Actually World War Filming World War II

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. David Talbot

Politics Dreams Time Rights Age President Teenager Rights Movement Hopes Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Invested He California Came Were Campaign Anti-War Movement Movements Worked Bobby Initially Kennedy Night

I believe health care is a civil right. Dennis Kucinich

Health Care Believe Civil Health Care Right

I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact... and I never left my conscience at the door. Deval Patrick

Good Business Rights Matter Problems Kinds Civil Civil Rights Fact Never Stuff Like Left Fixed Door Hard Conscience

Civil Quotes

No more civil quotes