Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or partnership:
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no countryno interests staked in public wealno liabilities in common perilno partnership in a nations guilt and shame?”
—Angelina Grimké (18051879)