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...
Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that im...
There are infinitely many possible worlds each of which has its own worldview, norm and values, moralities and so on. Only one of them is actual for each individual. Theological and conservative systems forget the existence of other alternative possi...
Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscienc...
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
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.
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
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.
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, ...
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sens...
