Quotes of: Civil-rights-movement Keyword

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be pu...

Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality

All those who prefer peace to power, and happiness to glory should thank the colonized people for their civilizing mission. By liberating themselves, they made Europeans more modest, less racist, and more human. Let us hope that the process continues...

Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War

It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to usurpation on one side ...

Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer tr...

The Things They Carried

You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - qu...

Carl Honore

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation....

Moby

…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s been forgotten that the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement with one...

Elbert Guillory

The civil service are risk averse.

Ken Livingstone

How is it possible to have a civil war?

George Carlin

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Eugene Ionesco

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Alfred North Whitehead

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Barack Obama

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Robert Delaunay

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Jim Wallis

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

Issey Miyake

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Alfred Adler

Let us work towards not only bringing civility back in style, but ultimately making it a lifestyle.

The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what...

The Powerbook

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Theodore Dalrymple

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

Noam Chomsky

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Bobby Riggs