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served as inspiration for Roger Baldwin, a future founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Emma Goldman
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So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes.
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. Richard Bach
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This year's Civil War Weekend will be more educational. The re-enactors are looking forward to interacting with all the people there.
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What we are precisely all about at this point is making sure that a deal doesn't happen, to show the developing country governments there are large numbers of people from civil society representing the interests of people in the developing world and elsewhere that will be very, very dissatisfied, very, very upset if a deal were made. Walden Bello
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What ultimately happens is that they become the parents of what we know of as the civil rights movement and ultimately have so much to do with where the Latino community is today and without them in that crossroads it probably wouldn't have happened.
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A lot of things, I think, would have to go wrong in order for this widespread civil unrest to become a reality, Don Meyer
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They know a lot before they get to it. We probably have the only second-grader in the county who knew about Stonewall Jackson in the Civil War.
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They have done what they set out to do ... to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born. Douglas Brinkley
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The country is going through dangerous times, it faces challenges, and the perils come from every direction. Sectarian tensions have increased. We have to prove to the whole world that there will not be civil war between the people of this country. The danger is still there, and our enemies are watching us. Adnan Pachachi
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The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country.
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The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from time to time, to be reminded of our roots. Bruce Gordon
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The civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment. Phil Klay
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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest. John Ralston Saul
civilization democracy needs
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws. James Joyce
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Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. James Hansen
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Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
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Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant. Friedrich August von Hayek
civilization growth important
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.
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Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.
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Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. This site is terrible! from, Allyson Stanley former miss America! Frederick Soddy
civilization may temples
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! George Galloway
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Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. James F. Cooper
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy. Henry A. Kissinger
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.