#civil

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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.


Pete du Pont


#between #big #black #civil #civil rights

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.


Jared Diamond


#civilization #consequences #environment #foresight #insight

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.


Tom Tancredo


#allegiance #america #american #civilization #country

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.


Serj Tankian


#civilization #firmly #gain #good #had

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.


Clarence Thomas


#act #after #before #civil #civil rights

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.


Bill Walton


#bob #civilization #dylan #good #history

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.


Charles Lawrence


#civil #civil society #firm #gentlemen #guardian

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.


Jonathan Mayhew


#civil government #common #government #ground #institution

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.


Walter Mosley


#civilization #cradle #eastern #exceptions #few

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.


Ralph Neas


#civil #civil rights #confirming #endanger #half