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I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Cents Civil Civil Liberties Claim Dollars Going Liberties Make Obama Romney Stronger Than

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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.

~Gary Krist

Topics: Accounts Civil Civil War Colored Dramas Extent Left Neglected Often Personal Politics Popular Something War Were West Which Wild Wild West

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We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

~Gary Rossington

Topics: Civil Civil War Dixie Flag Fought Heritage Know Over Represents Rights States War

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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Civil Different Equal Institutions Marriage Separate Unions

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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan After Captured Civil Civil War Earlier Fit Founding Imagined Immediately Instituted Islam Laws Lives More Most Offered Past Present Returned Sign Taliban Than Time Visible Vision War Which Women Years

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As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Academia Alcohol Brought Charge Civil Complex Crops Government Including Many Nuclear Outside People Problems Proliferation Reform Schools Science Servant Solving Strategy Unit Work Gm

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By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: About Activity Assembly Children Civil Civil Liberties Civil Society Community Concerns Constraints Everyday Exemplary Free Helping However International Liberties Many Particularly Parties Policies Regulation Restrictions Rising Seriously Society Standards Street Tide

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So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: After Back Bigger Bigger Picture Chasing Civil Civil Society Contracts Crises Even Funding Future Get Hand Juggling Live Look Many Minor Most Mouth Much New Organisations Perpetual Picture Prepared Rarely Short-Term Society Stand Time Treadmill

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You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: America Black Brown Civil Civil Rights Everybody Figure Go Helped How James James Brown Knew Loud Music Navigate Out Overcome People Place Proud Rights Say Shall Sing Songs Struggle Them Through Us Very Would You

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Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

~George Ayittey

Topics: Africa Civil Excluded Groups Marginalized Politically Started Virtually Wars Were

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