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Then, as segregation raged in much of the country, young black people helped spearhead civil rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s.
He was in Sudan when the civil war broke out there.
I had not yet fully grasped the way that the prosperity gospel had become the great civil religion, offering another transcendent account of the core of the American Dream.
You talked to me that day about the fact that people considered the restaurant a safe haven where they could come together, particularly if they were working on civil rights, human rights, working to change the laws.
Maybe it's because my dad was a civil rights attorney and my parents were socially conscious and demanded that we stand up for what we believe in.
In 1936, while Neruda was working at the consulate in Madrid, civil war broke out and the government was overthrown by a fascist military dictatorship.
Generations of refugees have been coming to our shores, fleeing the civil wars of the 1980s, in which the United States was deeply involved.
But then, Yemen took a really sad turn for the worse, and just a few days before I was due to fly out to Yemen, the civil war escalated into a regional conflict, the capital's airport was bombed and Yemen became a no-fly zone.
By the 1260s, Chinggis Khan's grandsons were in a full- blown civil war over inheritance and fragmented the realm into four separate empires.
These meetings sound very peaceful, civil and democratic, right?
I am speaking to you as a young woman from Libya, a country that is in the middle of a civil war.
The United States and Mexico took in thousands and millions, actually, of refugees escaping the civil wars of the 70s and 80s.
It requires faith groups, the private sector, media, academia, civil society organizations and others.
It's a civil war.
It will flood our cities, it will deprive us of food, it will cause all sorts of civil unrest.
I'm a law professor, lawyer and civil rights advocate.
We might see violence and civil unrest, not only in Afganistan and the United Kingdom, but across the globe.
If we truly want a more equitable, more prosperous and more sustainable economy, if we want high-functioning democracies and civil society, we must have a new economics.
We also complain about civil servants like police officers, who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens.
But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives.
But there are very smart people right around the world working on these challenges, from newsrooms, civil society, academia, activist groups.
What about controversial content, ambivalent content, uploaded by civil rights activists or citizen journalists?
Civil rights groups often do not have any better option to quickly make their recordings accessible to a large audience than by uploading them to social media.
I invite you all, I invite all companies, I invite all governments, all civil society, to listen to indigenous peoples, to go back to our roots.
Because it's civil and not criminal detention, there is no public defender system, so most detained immigrants are not going to have an attorney to help them with their cases.
And that strength of civil society and civil demand for a civilized living condition is, I think, our biggest asset.
Do you want to view the pandemic threat the way back in the 1950s people viewed the civil defense issue, and build your own little bomb shelter for pandemic flu?
And then after we speak, we engage in civil disobedience and risk getting arrested.
Civil disobedience is a powerful tool that has changed history many times, both in the United States in the '60s during the civil rights movement, of course in India with Mahatma Gandhi.
And the people who are coming and getting arrested with me and engaging with civil disobedience, many of them have never done it before, and they find it to be transformative.
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