The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. ...
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
Tillie: Civil rights is one thing. This here is somethin' else.
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
