Famous quotes containing the words opposed, civil and/or rights:
“They have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands as over a vast; and embraced as it were from the ends of opposed winds.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“She, too, would now swim down the river of matrimony with a beautiful name, and a handle to it, as the owner of a fine family property. Women’s rights was an excellent doctrine to preach, but for practice could not stand the strain of such temptation.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)