Civil Quotes
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We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.
Luther Strange
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
Anthony Trollope
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The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
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Civil rights cases are hard to win.
Mike Cernovich
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
William Nelson
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In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
Edna Buchanan
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.
Ezra Stiles
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Civil servants take forever to do anything.
Joseph Wambaugh
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People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.
Steve Daines
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I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.
Ellen Kushner
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When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
Michael Savage
