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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.


Paul Farmer


#civil #clean #clean water #critical #destitute

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.


Edmund Burke


#being #circumstances #civil #civil society #departure

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.


Edmund Burke


#circumstances #civil #color #discriminating #distinguishing

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.


Tony Campolo


#blesses #church #city #city hall #civil

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.


Stokely Carmichael


#audience #been #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.


Stokely Carmichael


#bill #black #cities #civil #civil rights

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.


Iris Chang


#assaults #bothered #civil #civil liberties #fiction

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.


Emile M. Cioran


#destroyed #gods #only

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.


Eldridge Cleaver


#civil #civil rights #creation #gone #human

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.


Patricia Cornwell


#built #civil #civil war #darkness #facing






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