Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or partnership:
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garages earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“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)