Quotes of: Civil-servant Keyword

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Julian Castro

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

Sigmund Freud

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Stokely Carmichael

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Jennifer Chiaverini

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

Charles Inglis

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Tammy Bruce

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Mitch Kapor

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Jello Biafra

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Mike Quigley

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

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

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

David Blunkett

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Morgan Freeman

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

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

Deval Patrick

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella