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With the help of your people or without it, we will civilize you in the end.

"Well, you suppose that drug will help civilize the world?"

The school was part of a government program claiming to civilize Native children.

We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement.

We, in the Federation, have tried to civilize ourselves beyond that point.

Think of the vast stride it will be in civilizing these people!

He could not turn down offers to "civilize" the Africans.

I was told by blackguards that you did not civilize yet.

I thought uniting them under one leader would begin the process of civilizing the region.

Yet the crusading movement in many ways helped to civilize Europe.

It had been a gesture, a nod towards civilizing him.

Up until then, we hadn't been doing too bad a job of civilizing the world."

May it continue to civilize its visitors, even in these barbaric times.

But civilizing the bullies of the street had not been Achilles' idea.

He believed in the "noble" cause of civilizing the Indians.

Though he doesn't understand that we'll have to civilize them first."

The Europeans wanted to rid the area of wolves to civilize it.

If they can work out some of the details in the kitchen, they may yet civilize the late night.

Surely, the attempt to civilize my floors was the moral thing to do.

"So you think that we can civilize our ancestors?"

"See what becomes of your plans to civilize us."

Little monsters, most of them, who don't civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.

She sets about civilizing him by teaching him how to dance.

According to the film, the Americans came to the Philippines for one reason: to civilize the people.

She smiled at him sweetly and said, "Oh, how nice to be civilize!"