#civil

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#before #began #civilization #effects #especially

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. ↗

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

#civil #civil war #conquered #feature #helplessness

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#audience #been #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#bill #black #cities #civil #civil rights

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#because #brothers #civil #civil wars #men

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. ↗

— Mary Cassatt

#future #i #i think #love #me

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#agencies #appeal #broadening #civil #compensation

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. ↗

— Julian Castro

#civil rights #could #fought #hard #hold

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#gay #i #legalized #married #place