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Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
Ann Coulter

Talking, Criminals, Liberals

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman

Country, Leave, Rights

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
Dick Gregory

Love, War, Dance

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
Bruce Springsteen

Experience, Nice, Gay

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

Medical, Care, Political

I certainly support civil unions.
Carly Fiorina

Support, Unions

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.
Tony Campolo

Down, Problem, Become

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
Tony Campolo

Government, Business, Legal

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Joe Biden

Fact, Rights, Concerned

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston

Love, Her, Name

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.
Gijs de Vries

Bad, Human, Find

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert

Trying, Leader, Rights

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Baldwin Spencer

Time, Society, Sure

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
Jesse Jackson

Today, Justice, Important

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
George McGovern

Freedom, Society, Choice

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.
Jon Meacham

Good, Daily, Fire

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
Tony Blair

Boss, Call, Street

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Bell Hooks

Love, Greatest, Justice

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
Clive Owen

Time, War, Travel

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Theresa May

Government, Security, Duty

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
Sarah Palin

Work, War, Beautiful

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Easy, Rights, Anybody

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
Caroline Kennedy

Women, Great, Father

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Political, Human, Law

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
Dick Gregory

Black, Thought, Rights

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Reading, Activity

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Dan Savage

Equality, Alone, Gay

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
John Kasich

Great, Power, Getting

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
James Cameron

Evening, Living, Sun

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Martin Sheen

Great, Government, Person

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