If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
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.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.
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.
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.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
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.
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.
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical...
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
