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Tag Name "Civil" (1122)

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Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.
Ted Nugent
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Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
Andrew Young
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Civil disobedience is an act of love.
Tim DeChristopher
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Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
Thomas Sowell
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Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
James McGreevey
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Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
Alexander Hamilton
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Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.
Alexander Hamilton
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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Al Gore
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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Howard Zinn
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Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.
William Kunstler
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
William Shakespeare
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Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.
Dorothy Height
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Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.
Ernest Gellner
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Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
John Quincy Adams
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.
Edward Hirsch
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Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
Frederick Douglass
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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Paul Farmer
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Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
Noam Chomsky
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