#civil

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#acquaintances #again #another #begin #civil

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. ↗

— John Moody

#before #civil #civil war #decade #federal

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew. ↗

— Anne Moody

#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#culture #war #art

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. ↗

— Anne Moody

#mississippi-authors #age

The slum is the measure of civilization. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#measure #slum

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. ↗

— Jack Scalia

#civil #civil war #country #every #family

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#barbaric #basically #bringing #case #changing

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

#christian #civil #civil rights #denomination #extended

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. ↗

— A.A. Gill

#americans #civilization #civilizations #change