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Letter "C" » civil
«A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.»
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Educator)
| About:
Education,
Society
| Keywords:
civil, Civil society
«A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.»
Author: A. Philip Randolph
| About:
Civil rights,
Community,
Democracy
| Keywords:
civil, civil right, democratic, economic, humblest, social rights, weakest
«And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
beverage, beverages, blowing, bringing, bringing up, bring off, civil, coffee, crap, craps, fathers, founding, Founding Fathers, libertarian, libertarians, peoples, tolerated
«Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.»
Author: Dick Gregory
| Keywords:
belonging, bills, Bill of Rights, black people, civil, civil right, civil rights, confused, Human rights, installment, installments, installment plan, stature, statures, the US
«All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.»
«Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Familiarity
| Keywords:
civil, familiar with, sociable
«Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
civil, familiar, familiar with, sociable
«As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Community,
Government,
Liberty,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Among the, apt, civil, community, entitled, equally, foremost, liberal, liberality, members, protections
«A civil guest / Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.»
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Freedom
| Keywords:
civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, civil rights, cocktail, cocktails, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, destroyers, Klansman, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, liberties, Molotov, Molotov cocktail, rioter, rioters, The Destroyers
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