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If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

- Glenn Antizzo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Railing and praising were his usual themes and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

- John Dryden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

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There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

- John Negroponte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Civil War is a big game. Regardless of the records going into the game, it's definitely going to be a dogfight.

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The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. . . . His culture is based on 'I'm not too sure.'

- H. L. Mencken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer in a court of law. He also wants to avoid the stigma that O.J. Simpson got after his civil conviction.

- Eric Dubin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Indian nuclear establishment is not comfortable with the civil nuclear energy deal because it changes things for them.

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His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy. Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.

- Nan Aron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

played a significant role in shaping and advancing the Republican agenda to roll back civil rights protections.

- Harry Reid Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

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If the funds aren't paid by the deadline, the department will file a civil lawsuit.

- Dean Fryer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is therefore the duty of the Zambian government to promote and strengthen its judiciary, ... In fact the government should decide which matters they will pursue. Other than being legally folly, the attempts to run parallel civil and criminal matters based on the same facts, material and circumstances, unfairly prejudices me.

- Frederick Chiluba Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have drafted an innocuous reply to the civil rights commission chairman. The report is attached, although I do not recommend reading it.

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My father played the piano remarkably well, in particular Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven and Scriabin. During the civil war he earned a living by playing the accompaniment to silent films at the cinema.

- Andrei Sakharov Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

- Henry Knox Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos.

- Dolores Huerta Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In other words, the fundamental values (freedom, justice, equality of rights) began to be respected by France and the United States in the 1950s-1960s, after decolonization and assuring civil equality between Blacks and Whites.

- Omar Bongo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

- Ernest Istook Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The progress of Chicago during the decades immediately following the civil war marked its metamorphosis from a pioneer town into a city of promise.

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It's good that we've grown from the fight for civil rights to an expectation of civil rights for every human being here.

- Al Cárdenas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Political tension by itself cannot lead to civil war. Sectarianism is the one possible cause. But the position of the leadership has pulled the rug out from under this proposition.

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