341 Quotes About Civil

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

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

It creates the impression that you have a two-tiered system of justice, where most Americans have full constitutional rights, and then you have a set of diminished civil liberties for American Muslims.

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

If the secretary of state says I can't be a member of two parties, I might have to take them to federal court for civil rights violation.