I believe health care is a civil right.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its , 11 November 1755
But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; .
We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelp...
