Quotes of: Civil-right Keyword

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot b...

John Logan

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation-states will rema...

Samuel P. Huntington

Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and reminded myself for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one h...

Alien Contact

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

Rita Dove

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery ...

Kerry Washington

Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, didn't end until 1945 - well into the childhoods of t...

Douglas A. Blackmon

William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [Wild Bill grabs Coffey's arm] Where y'all think you're goin'? John Coffey: You a bad man. William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: That's right, nigger. Bad as you'd want. John Coffey: HEY! You keep a civil tongue on my block!

The Green Mile

my advice is; Let’s join the caravan of humanity, and ally ourselves with a conscious progress, let’s join the secular non-sectarian societies, lets distant ourselves from military tradition, and join the human race in benefiting humanity as a wh...

Honourable Defection

In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee that the accused received a fair trial and the right of defence. This was the foundation of the Inquisition, and it was a ...

Why Catholics are Right

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

A Civil Campaign

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

Cary Fukunaga

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

The Pillars of the Earth

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Pharsalia: The Civil War

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Naguib Mahfouz

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Charles Inglis

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

John Podhoretz

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

Jerry Springer

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Weatherill

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Herbert Read

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI