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The question in my mind is whether the civil rights community acted fast enough, ... Here we are at the deadline, and how many black people know what we know about his record? It doesnt put us in a mobilization mode. And this is a war.

To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.

Today represents another milestone toward the fulfillment of the American dream for thousands of lesbian and gay couples in California, ... Society is strongest when it upholds the basic civil rights of all its citizens, including the right to marry the person you love.

We didn't have a lead or early intelligence. The murder took place in the dark from point blank range. The murderer and whoever sent him, it became clear in retrospect, had no connection to the judge, who dealt with civil cases, and we had no idea of the motive.

We are marching to defend our civil liberties which are under attack and to show our solidarity with the Muslim communities who are bearing the brunt of that attack.

The department has a lively and strong sense of tradition and even if one was disposed to ignore that, it would be awfully hard to do that in the teeth of all these very smart civil servants who say 'No, this is not what we do, or this is the position the department has always taken,'

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

The criminal aspect, from a shareholder's perspective, is important because it helps Hollinger International prove its civil case. Shareholders are not recovering meaningful money as a result of the criminal actions. $250,000 is great, but when you're looking for $500 million it doesn't go a long way.

What it really means is a shorter, more focused trial, which is better for the government. It probably takes out of the equation some of the more complex accounting issues. The defense was likely hoping to make this case seem like a complex civil financial fraud case, and without Causey, that will be more difficult.

What I think it?s going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country, ... Go to your senators? offices, to federal buildings. Sit down and say enough is enough. The killing has to stop sometime.

What it boils down to is he will not be released unless he confesses to a crime he did not commit. It's probably the worst civil rights case facing the U.S. government right now.

There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they have the potential to infringe on civil liberties.

We opted to go to Canada to get married as opposed to go to Vermont to get a civil union because we believe in marriage, marriage does matter.

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.

who will understand their key role in protecting our civil rights, who will recognize the significant impact of their decisions on our everyday lives.

We voted to make it so that people who are registered domestic partners, members of civil unions or gay marriages from other jurisdictions, will now be recognized as registered New York city domestic partners,

We consider ourselves to be the Civil War re-creationists of music. We're paying tribute to the song and the artist, but we serve the song. At first, we were sort of like a secret club but now it's not so secret anymore.

We are changing the way we design our projects, so that they address the incentives and opportunities to fight corruption right from the start. Enforcement alone will not cure corruption. How much we do, and how much progress we make, depends on the desire of both governments and civil society to create the right setting for sound, strong, sustainable development.

We have firm policies prohibiting payola and requiring compliance with the federal sponsor identification rules , and we enforce them. We have cooperated fully with the attorney general's office in this investigation. Now that the attorney general has filed this civil action, we are confident that the issues will be fully and fairly resolved by the court.

We will first determine whether these are criminal allegations or whether this is a civil matter.

The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. Civil society has a huge role to play, communities have a huge role to play.

There has to be an appeals process. We have to balance civil rights and security.

There has never been this kind of mobilization in the immigrant community ever. They have kicked the sleeping giant. It's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil rights struggle.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

There is absolutely nothing in common between this social club and an organization like CAP that was established to push a political agenda to prohibit women and minorities from attending Princeton. No one can question Senator Kennedy's lifelong commitment to fighting for civil rights, equality and justice.

There is a block on the Supreme Court, that I think would be confirmed if we are not successful in this election with Vice President Gore and Senator Lieberman, who want to drastically restrict the ability of the federal government to protect and promote the civil rights and human rights and basic needs of the American people,

We're pursuing the girls' civil rights, their right to be free from discrimination based on their perceived sexual orientation.

Why should the victim who has never received a dime sit back while the civil rights violator gets his job and back pay?

To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reenactments - grandiose plays enacted by over weight history buffs and war enthusiasts alike.

We at this church will not perform the civil unions of same-sex couples because it would be un-Biblical to do so.

We have shattered the glass ceiling theory, and I hope women will seize the moment to become active in civil and political affairs,

This sham compromise agreement fails to address the primary substantive concern raised by millions of Americans, as well as civil liberties, privacy and business organizations and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and in both chambers.

There is potential exposure there. Whether it's criminal responsibility or not, I can't gauge. Certainly they're ethically responsible, and in terms of civil penalties there's a good chance they'll have to answer to the government.

The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.

The power to impeach a president should not be casually used to remove a president and overturn an election simply because we don't like him or his policies. The constitution is on trial, and we hope that we will uphold the constitution and the civil rights of everybody involved.

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

There are always going to be insurgents in Iraq ... and there's always going to be bombs going off. That's the nature of that neighborhood, ... The key is: Can this military defend its civil government and be accountable and responsible to it? I think they're going to hold.

There are a couple of issues yet. We had both the electrical and civil sanitary engineer here last Friday.

We've identified the problem and it's not going away. What I think it's going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country,

While it comes as no surprise that the nominee's views are different than ours, it is the seemingly extreme nature of those views, the degree of difference, that makes his candidacy unacceptable. Roberts has demonstrated a commitment to reversing the historic civil rights gains of the past 40 years.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Without the Civil Air Patrol, I would have gone into the Army not knowing as much as I did. I was ahead of everyone else. It also helped form me as a leader.

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

We will likely hold an international forum for representatives of business circles, civil society and government bodies in Moscow in September. It is our opinion that it is impossible to counter this evil effectively without the assistance of civil society. And we need the support of the business community to cut off international financial aid to terrorist organizations.

We will initiate at the beginning of next year one of the most serious debates about civil rights and individual liberties in our history.

We welcome the government's decision and think it's a wise one. The government has never had a case against Dr. Chase, whether civil or criminal.

The president of the united states has authorized spying on American citizens and these are things that need to be dealt with because in the final analysis f we surrender especially civil liberties or things that make the nation great, the terrorists have won.

When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front.

express those emotions with violence, they must not express them with civil disorder, or any fashion that infringes on the rights of others.

Faith-based organizations have been partnering successfully with the government for years without the need to bypass civil rights laws in providing social services.

failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex couples.

But somehow the civil society organizations do not give it adequate priority in terms of stopping the crime, they are not seeing it as genocide.

The governor has failed his test of leadership and missed a historic opportunity to stand up for the basic civil rights of all Californians, ... He cannot claim to support fair and equal treatment for same-sex couples and veto the very bill that would have provided it to them.

The government is satisfied that it is lawful for the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles, like anyone else, to marry by a civil ceremony in accordance with Part III of the Marriage Act 1949.

We see the next two or three months in the following way: the people go onto the streets, the church calls the people to go onto the streets ... Serbia as a whole is in a state of civil disobedience in a general strike. He goes.

We're talking about an entire major American metropolitan area that has been completely dislocated, completely evacuated, ... Last time that happened in American history was the Civil War.

The government's crackdown on civil society is unprecedented, even in Uzbekistan's 14-year history of repression since independence from the Soviet Union.

The government can't even claim that it's for national security. They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.

Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.

We all want to make it very clear this afternoon that if the Justice Department's handling of this matter, if their continued provocation in the form of unjustified threats to revoke the boy's parole leads to civil unrest and violence, we are holding the federal government responsible -- and specifically Janet Reno and the president of the United States -- for anything that may occur in this community,

There is a lot of momentum toward limiting civil RICO at the court.

The reason marriage is fundamentally different from a civil contract is that marriage is formed for a fundamental purpose that is to bring a new life into the world." ()

There is nothing progressive about turning nature and God's sacred design for marriage on its head in the name of civil rights,

There is, ... no single global strategy that works in terms of democratic openness. Sometimes it happens from the bottom up and sometimes it happens from the up down, and to be successful it usually has to work in both ways. There has to be elite that wants change, though that desire can be supported and driven by popular participation. For example in Chile, the Philippines and Korea it required pressure on leaders on top to open up their systems and those pressures couldn't have come only from civil society. In Ukraine and Georgia on the other hand there was obviously a big push from below -- pressure in both directions is necessary. There is not one single strategy that produces democratic transition.

Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution

To an amazing extent, careless e-mailing has become one of the most frequent minefields in civil and criminal discovery. Case after case, ranging from criminal prosecutions to sexual harassment lawsuits, have been anchored on careless e-mails.

Those promises, however, did nothing to stop Thomas and Scalia from repeatedly voting against women's rights, women's reproductive freedom, and civil rights once they were confirmed.

This was the first tangible presence of the federal government or any civil authority in the Rogue Valley. Unlike, say, the stereotypical Western vision of Fort Apache, the primary mission of this fort was to protect the Indians from the whites in that period of time.

This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil rights and our right to privacy when it counts the most.

This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer, evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle. It ought to be required reading for all Americans who value their freedom and the contribution of Black women to our history.

What really has been the convincing point for the emergency response community and the civil and mechanical communities who focus on structural damage has been seeing the data; once you have seen the data it becomes very compelling.

What is probably happening is they are trying to seek disgorgement of profits and assess a civil penalty she deems unreasonable.

We can only have success in partnership with others in the development community, including civil society and the private sector. There must be effective performance in utilizing development assistance -- corruption-free and reaching the poor.

We don't really have a way to answer that yet, partly because there have been so few people released from civil commitment and partly because the number who have been committed is also low.

You may have a civil action against a developer, but you never have the right to go in the middle of someone's yard and cut down their trees.

This year's Civil War Weekend will be more educational. The re-enactors are looking forward to interacting with all the people there.

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.

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.

Through this deal we hope to raise our bilateral economic partnership and our interaction in the civil aviation sectors to new heights,

What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.

What the extremists are trying to do is to foment a civil war. But we don't see it. We don't see it succeeding.

...We might never have had a civil rights bill in 1964. That was one of the most important and best moments of American history,

We have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not. And this question, 40 and 50 years after Dr. King and the civil rights movement, is, 'How could this still be happening in America?'

We will use every tool available to pursue fraud against the New York Medicaid program wherever it occurs, ... The criminal and civil sanctions imposed on Heritage and Arnold demonstrate our continuing efforts to prosecute fully any crimes we uncover and return misappropriated funds to the State.

We will now celebrate Coretta Scott King as though the civil rights movement is finished and the mission has been accomplished, but the work is not done. We should be very respectful of and encouraged by the substantial progress that has been made. But in no way, shape or form should we conclude that the civil rights mission is complete.

We will not let governments off the hook, ... We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

We in New York chose effective law enforcement and disregarded the respect for civil rights and civil liberties. We chose the former over the latter. That was a colossal error in judgment.

We are very concerned that Will Perkins' aim is to re-enact his denial of civil rights to same-sex couples. We would hotly dispute the notion that domestic partnerships are the same as marriage.

We are very concerned about the situation in Nepal which seems to be deteriorating rapidly. In the lead up to the one year anniversary of the February 1 coup, civil liberty abuses are still occurring and the Nepalese people's rights to freedom of expression and a free press are being violently and deplorably ignored.

Very typically these days we see white supremacists, hate groups, trying to use the words of King and other civil rights leaders to try to advance their agendas.

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.

This signals the end of an era, the civil rights era. And it's a signal of a changing of the guard in black leadership. Look around locally and nationally; the lack of leadership is frightening.

Those who have examined his record very closely are convinced that he's probably incapable of upholding civil rights laws as they ought to be interpreted,

There have been press reports of civil actions against your firm involving multi-million dollar settlements that occurred during the time you were either managing partner or president of the firm, about which the Committee would like to have more information.

The regulation says that if you leave the job for a period of 14 days without communication you can be terminated. I don't think they have the right to a civil service appeal.

We are going to be having, hopefully it will be the largest civil rights demonstration in the history of Dallas, Texas -- 100,000-plus.

Brown truly becomes law, really becomes something everyone's on board with after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ... At that point, Congress said, 'We are behind Brown.'

Everything that needs to be done must be done to avoid a civil war, and I think they are keenly aware of the danger.