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I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

~Edward James Olmos

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In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.

~Edward P. Jones

Topics: Aunt Because Bill Civil Civil Rights Could Cousins Happy Her Kids Now Passed Pool Rights Sister South Stay Summer Swim Virginia Were

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Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Anybody Anybody Else Anyone Anyone Else Break Bringing Civil Detriment Disobedience Do The Right Thing Does Else Hurt Key Law Make Onto Right Right Thing Risking Serve Sometimes Sure Terms The Right Thing Thing You Yourself

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It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

~Edward Snowden

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As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Been Began Civil Civil War Destroyed Had Indian Journals Lives Men More More And More Read Realized Shattered Souls Then Universe Utterly War Wars Who Whole Whose

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Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.

~Edwin Meese

Topics: Citizenship Civil Civil Society Culture Faithful Government Healthy Impossible Lead Liberty Limited Limited Government Motivating Ordered Pastors Responsibilities Society Stewardship Way Will Wise Without

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Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all Americans, of whatever faith they may practice, religious-liberty laws are good policy. Liberals committed to tolerance should embrace them.

~Edwin Meese

Topics: Achieving All Americans American Civil Committed Disagreement Embrace Even Faith Good Laws Liberals May One Way Peace Pluralism Policy Practice Protect Rights Should Society States Them Tolerance United United States Way Whatever

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There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

~Ehud Barak

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

~Eldridge Cleaver

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I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

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