A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
It's your life, not your death, that defines you.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
