When did one man ever civilize a people?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.