Short Civil Sayings
1421 Civil quotes by 985 unique authors
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Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era. -…
— Anchorman
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A slew of federal civil rights legislation protecting the newly freed slaves was passed during the relatively brief but extraordinary period of black advancement known…
— Michelle Alexander
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The problem that we face as civil rights lawyers and advocates is that its extremely difficult to prove race discrimination because the Supreme Court is…
— Michelle Alexander
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All the civil rights leaders and people who died, black and white, you know, Mexican, Chinese, black, you name it, all the ones who died…
— Rodney King
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I turn around but turn back no matter what the circumstance/ You like a drug, heightened buzz I know that you heard of that/ You…
— Tactics
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Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things…
— John Owen
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If youre going to provide civil rights and equality for everybody, you cannot draw a line, you cannot build a wall. We must respect the…
— John Lewis
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If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with the…
— Robert Peel
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I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union…
— James Buchanan
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Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
— James Buchanan
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Numerous emigrants, of every lineage and language, attracted by the civil and religious freedom we enjoy and by our happy condition, annually crowd to our…
— James K. Polk
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People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairies; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they…
— Anna Kendrick
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Brandon McCaw did a story based on Greek poets like Hesiod described a heroic age when great men mingled with gods and powerful kingdoms contended…
— Brandon McCaw
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While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When the civil rights are denying by the authorities, in a country.The people will be under the slavery , from the slavery all social unrest…
— Sumesh Nair
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Syria's bloody civil war has arrived in Damascus, as rebels and pro-government forces wage fierce battles in the city's suburban areas. A Radio-Canada crew travelled…
— Unknown Author
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If you dont like our counrty get out and if you are apart of the 12 million illegal immigrants then yes you dont be here…
— Unknown Author
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We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do for the Negro…
— William Howard Taft
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One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South,…
— Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign.
— Kanye West
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