Quotes of: Civilized Keyword

He who is hungry is never a good civil servant.

Chinese

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Rand Paul

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Clarence Thomas

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Ned Sublette

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Danny Glover

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for ...

Niger Innis

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Janis Ian

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

David Price

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Bobby Scott

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Al Franken

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an u...

Shatterpoint

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something lik...

Gary Bauer

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Jim Costa

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

James T. Walsh

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Henry Rollins

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

Henry Louis Gates