Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Institute makes sure that the work we're doing to preserve the King legacy - all of the materials related to King and the civil rights movement - goes on in perpetuity.

Jan Egeland

The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.

The (fast-breed reactor) program is at a prototype stage and not ready for inclusion in a list of India's civilian nuclear reactors.

I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your rights.

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Paul Johnson

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Carl Stokes

I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.

Immigration law is civil law; law enforcement never enforces civil law.

Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people from demonstrating.

Eleanor Smeal

Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, and we'll save the Supreme Court.' Now, they have stepped back from using that power.

Cyprus conveyed its support to India's efforts for the promotion of full civilian nuclear energy cooperation.

The new Tammany was wrapped in a cloth of sanctimony. It professed to represent the interests of the poor. Protected in part by civil service and union power, it was immune to elections, and rather than being subject to scrutiny by the press it was mostly treated as a sacred cow.

William Empson

The "News," the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you into fear.

William Empson

The "News," the conferences that leer, the creeping fog, the civil traps. These are what force you into fear.

The African-American community was able to unite itself during the civil rights movement, and look at all the progress they made. As a Latino community, we need to follow that same path of unity and organization. If we don't show our strength in numbers, we will continue to be treated the same.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Edward Kennedy

supported a cramped and narrow view that would exempt many formally covered institutions from following civil rights laws that protect women, minorities, and the disabled.

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

Peter Rodman

Not only do I not see civil war happening, I don't think they will succeed in derailing this political process. The next few days will tell if I am right.

not visibly troubled by the violation of the internees' civil rights.

Steve Smith

It's all about Scottish civilian and military life in Colonial Georgia.

Hosni Mubarak

It's not on the threshold (of civil war). It's pretty much started.

It's not just the progressives and the Democrats but also Libertarians and moderate Republicans who feel that private rights and civil liberties are being threatened by this administration.

For every security provision we put in place, there's a civil right done away with, ... There's a limit to how much security people want. Many people feel violated after they've been through check-in at the airport.

For federal purposes, civil unions are not marriages.

Rabih Alameddine

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

Amartya Sen

I loved that breadth, and also the fact that in interpreting Indian civilization itself, its cultural diversity was much emphasized.

Anthony Bourdain

It's not as much an expose as it is a memoir, with some things that seem to have shocked and horrified some of the civilian population,

Everyone is nervous. The security situation is not good. There are so many explosions at the checkpoints and near the convoys. The Americans are afraid. And when the driver doesn't see them, it happens sometimes that civilians are killed. It is a tragedy that most of the victims are civilians. It is making life more difficult. But this is our situation. It is very dangerous.

Marion Barry

I've gone through the Civil Rights Movement. I've seen courts and mayors and white people do things, you turn your back and they undo it. And we don't need that ... so I speak a little different about it. I've experienced this kind of double-dealing, and I'm not going to take it anymore.

No man, not even Slobodan Milosevic, is worth a civil conflict and bloodshed.

There might be a civil rights violation. But that's in the preliminary stage of research.

This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldier and was willing to give up his life in a war for us. He was also a soldier in another way - a civil rights soldier - and he did die for us all.