Quotes of: Civilized-nations Keyword

Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and a...

Rats, Lice and History

When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or w...

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

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

America's 1st Arab spring came in the guise of the Civil War...when our nation couldn't stomach the abomination of slavery anymore. One can't help keep wondering...when the next one will come.✌

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

Ahmet Ertegun

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.

Tom Cardamone

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Ronald Reagan

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

bell hooks

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Joe Biden