Quotes having the keyword Civil
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
by Lyman Trumbull (Politician, American , born in 1813) keywords: belonging, citizens, civil, constitution, does, each, fundamental, grant, great, impartial, laws, may, pleases, required, respect, rights, shall, state, such, under , withhold The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.
by Lyman Trumbull (Politician, American , born in 1813) keywords: alike, among, anyone, bill, citizens, civil, classes, confers, declares, equality, neither, nor, punishment, rights, same, shall, simply , subject No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
by Paul Tsongas (Politician, American , born in 1941) keywords: affect, china, civil, depression, directions, events, her, his, ii, immune, intrude, larger, lives, our, radically, rights, spring, these, time, upon, vietnam, war , world You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
by Midge Ure (Musician, Scottish , born in 1953) keywords: based, civil, entire, find, help, irish, life, morning, religion, see, situation, then, thing, think, through, up, wake , war Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
by Suzanne Vega (Musician, American , born in 1959) keywords: assume, certain, civil, experience, follow, formalities, life, listen, own, place, see, smart, sometimes, songs, tells, things, very, way, world , writers There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
by Jon Voight (Actor, American , born in 1938) keywords: civil, country, creating, now, obama, our, own, president, question, real, stake , war The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
by Sarah Vowell (Author, American , born in 1969) keywords: civil, constitution, declaration, independence, likely, parting, really, red, sea, seem, them , think In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
by Gijs de Vries (Politician, Dutch , born in 1956) keywords: attacks, bad, civil, conflict, easier, find, governance, hide, human, lawlessness, military, prepare, rights, situations, strife, terrorists, their, train , violations As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
by James T. Walsh (Politician, American , born in 1947) keywords: advancing, change, civil, fortifying, king, leader, movement, mrs, nonviolent, peace, racial, rights, social, staple , vision The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
by Ida B. Wells (Activist, American , born in 1862) keywords: ballot, box, civil, freedom, giving, his, law, resented, rights , south I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
by Lynn Westmoreland (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: civil, defense, downer, fema, firefighters, funding, general, got, guard, making, money, national, officers, police, problem, some, spend, talked, them, way , workers I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
by William H. Wharton (Politician, American , born in 1802) keywords: attended, civil, colonists, condition, conduct, cultivation, danger, government, history, lands, over, pass, redemption, suffering, their, toil, turn , which Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
by Roger Wicker (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: act, civil, concerns, constitutional, facts, infringe, libertarians, patriot, provisions, raised, rights, some, supported , those I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
by Henry A. Wise (Statesman, American , born in 1806) keywords: another, authority, civil, conflict, defend, fight, liberty, revolutionary, secede, sovereign, state, under, union, which , will Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: applied, children, civil, epithet, grant, innocent, men, should, term, weakness , women When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: appetite, case, cast, civil, disorder, drink, duty, elevated, family, feeling, indulge, members, men, minds, much, neglect, off, pitied, pleasure, regard, religion, society, strong, take, their , understandings Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
by Andrew Young (Clergyman, American , born in 1932) keywords: been, civil, doing, helping, involved, leaders, life, poor , rights This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
by Neil Young (Musician, Canadian , born in 1945) keywords: act, against, called, civil, country, defend, four-year, lot, our, patriot, rights, story, terrorism, thing, through , which
