The great questions of freedom for the slaves and the unity of the Nation, liberty and nationality, are now settled. No political ...or party revolutions can unsettle the established facts, that all men are to have in this country equal civil and political rights, and that the United States form one people, one nation. The small questions of today about taxation, appointments, etc., etc., are petty and uninteresting. I cannot consent, after having borne my part in the glorious struggle against slavery during the last seventeen years, now to endure the worry and anxiety belonging to political life for the sake of the honors merely, and without subjects interesting me deeply involved in the struggles.... I am not a candidate, and shall avoid being made one, for the senatorship or for any other high office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Resolved, There can never be a true peace in this Republic until the civil and political rights of all citizens of African descent... and all women are practically established. Resolved, that the women of the Revolution were not wanting in heroism and self-sacrifice, and we, their daughters, are ready, in this War, to pledge our time, our means, our talents, and our lives, if need be, to secure the final and complete consecration of America to freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use th...eir best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and... personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify eve...ry page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it t...asks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cove...r any core or sap-wood at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve ...each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach h...im to be civil and sweet-tempered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »