Civil Liberties Union

Famous quotes containing the words civil, liberties and/or union:

“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman’s soul.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“She had brought love to the union and he had brought a longing after the flesh.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)