Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.
In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
I think it’s important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
Yes, I think it’s really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.
I’m not super-polite or civil – I try to be civil, but I’m not into Seattle’s niceties, and I’m not hugely wired into Seattle’s natural beauty.
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.
I am a passionate civil libertarian.
War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
I did graduate with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1948.
Civil servants take forever to do anything.
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.
I pushed the process forward by saying, ‘We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.’
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
You can’t put civil rights on the ballot.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.
People who know me know that I’m always interested in an honest, civil exchange of views, and I’m not some Hollywood liberal know-nothing.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
I will work in partnership with the Government, all political parties, and civil society to safeguard and advance the future of all Singaporeans.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate – all to gun violence.
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors – all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq’s future.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
