Quotes of: Civil-society Keyword

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

The Fault in Our Stars

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure:

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

A blanket could be used to foil slave traders. But so could tinfoil and leftover meatloaf. Geez, the whole Civil War could have been avoided if only Lincoln had known that little trick.

Blanket

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

The Lemon Table

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites

His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a c...

Al Sharpton

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

The Civilization Loop: The End Is the Beginning

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.

Morris Dees

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Noam Chomsky

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have ...

Ray Bradbury

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all pe...

Thomas Perez

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FE...

Bayard Rustin