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From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Accustomed Although American Been Both British Civil Civil War Con Confederacy Decided Discussions Divided England Finally Government Had Hear Infancy Opinion Pro Public Public Opinion Questions Recognise Secession Sharply Slavery War

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We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

~Enda Kenny

Topics: Civil Colour Couples Creed Discrimination Extended Here Issue Law Marriage Much Race Right Same-Sex Things World

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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Civil Engineering English Father High High School Mit Mother Professor School Taught

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I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Animated Attorney Attorney General Being Civil Civil Rights Continue General Give Involve Involved Issues Just Like My Time Myself Reform Rights Speeches Systematic Time Want Way Work

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I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Always Boy Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Department Department Of Justice Ever Force How Justice Kennedy Loved Movement Must Prove Right Rights Rights Movement Robert Since Watched Which Young

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In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Almost Civil Civil Rights Conscience Department Division Justice Kind Lot Measure Rights Ways You

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Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: Attorney Certainly Civil Experience Folks General Litigation Lot More Most Office Percent Regulatory Served Than Think Who Work I Think

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The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: Civil Civil Rights Important Most Nation Our Right Rights Vote

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It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them - sort of fundamental bedrock civil liberties things.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Against Bay Bedrock Civil Civil Liberties Even Evidence Fundamental Guantanamo Had Lawyers Liberties Me People Reports See Sort Talk Them Things Torture Troubled Who

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The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

~Ernest Istook

Topics: American American People Civil Criminal Criminal Justice Fabric Justice Law Nose Our People Society System Very Want Well

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