Civil Quotes

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.