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Being merely civil means not pulling our punches, but at the same time, it means maybe not landing all those punches all at once, because the point of mere civility is to allow us to disagree, to disagree fundamentally, but to do so without denying or destroying the possibility of a common life tomorrow with the people that we think are standing in our way today.
And it also means that, sometimes, calling bullshit on people's civility talk is really the only civil thing to do.
I had been given the highest civil honor by the French government, the title of which for the life of me I can't pronounce even until now.
And its proponents have spanned the spectrum from the left to the right, from the civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, to the economist Milton Friedman.
We are committed to healing ourselves, to lacing up our sneakers, to walking out of our front door every single day for total healing and transformation in our communities, because we understand that we are in the footsteps of a civil rights legacy like no other time before, and that we are facing a health crisis like never ever before.
On Christmas Eve in 1989, civil war erupted in Liberia.
It was built in 1991-92 as a "temporary camp" for Somalis fleeing the civil war.
Two, civil society organization.
Now, looking at that middle range of individuals, actually, we need a lot of civil society voices.
And that's when we combine large groups of civil society voices with creatives, techies, app developers, artists, comedians, and we can create really specified content and actually, online, disseminate it to very strategic audiences.
And so Hoover had his agents put bugs in Dr. King's hotel rooms, and those bugs picked up conversations between civil rights leaders talking about the strategies and tactics of the Civil Rights Movement.
Hoover ran a program called COINTELPRO for 15 years which was designed to spy on and undermine civic groups that were devoted to things like civil rights, the Women's Rights Movement, and peace groups and anti-war movements.
Now, civil libertarians like myself have been trying to draw people's attention to these things and fighting against them for years.
When Presidents Bush, Obama and now even Trump, have called education "the civil rights issue of our time," perhaps we should treat it that way.
Municipal government officials stepped forward and helped with permits and with convening civil society organizations.
Instead, we filed a civil lawsuit, and we eventually won the case, and her case became a rallying cry for domestic workers everywhere.
We have three critical terms: economy, civil society and the state.
Her reports would shock the nation and launch her career as an investigative journalist, civic leader, and civil rights advocate.
She also chafed with other civil rights leaders, who saw her as a dangerous radical.
The civil defense programs were disconnected from the reality of what we'd see in all-out nuclear war.
This was sent to me by somebody who is an aficionado of civil defense procedures, but the fact of the matter is that America's gone through a very hard time.
He joined the Communist Party when black American’s civil rights were one of its priorities, but soon became disillusioned by the party’s authoritarian leanings and left.
He returned to the United States armed with strategies for peaceful protest, including civil disobedience.
As King’s prominence increased, Rustin became his main advisor, as well as a key strategist in the broader civil rights movement.
I went to the Islamic University of Gaza, and I studied civil engineering, where there was a one-to-six female-to-male ratio.
So faced with this impossible task, civil servants and state officials developed amazing creativity and entrepreneurship.
Education is the civil rights struggle, it's the human rights struggle of our generation.
A victor in a thousand contests, three great civil rights laws, Medicare, aid to education.
These are the ones who fit neither the policy stereotype of the low-skilled and the marginalized, nor the white-collar, salaried office worker or civil servant with a pension that the middle classes are allegedly composed of.
And we really need to listen to this generation if we hope to have a healthy and civil society going forward, because millienials of color, they make up a fair chunk of the US and the world population.
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