Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or law:
“If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)
“Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)