Quotes of: Civil-right Keyword

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Larry Craig

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Claude Nicollier

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Esther Dyson

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George P. Shultz

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

James F. Cooper

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baldwin Spencer

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Ann Coulter

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

Karin Slaughter

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Lisa Kristine

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Noam Chomsky

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

Nancy Gibbs