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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.


Ayn Rand


#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.


Charles Rangel


#civilians #died #field #iraqi #killing

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.


Charles Rangel


#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.


Herbert Read


#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.


Herbert Read


#cellular #civilization #course #culture #differentiated

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.


Herbert Read


#christianity #civilization #emerge #emerged #just

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.


Ronald Reagan


#civil #civil service #examination #federal #federal government

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.


Ronald Reagan


#civil #civil rights #civil rights act #enforced #favor

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


#changed #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #commercial

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


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