Civil Quotes
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We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.
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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
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My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.
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The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
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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.
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Civil servants take forever to do anything.
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Civil rights cases are hard to win.
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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.
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The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.
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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.
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Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
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The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.
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When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
