89 quotes found
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then there will be no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, n...”
“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
“To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be ...”
“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by ev...”
“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is...”
“For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga- a belief that we're all connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't r...”
“Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Mar...”
“Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.”
“What is taking place here should be made very clear: Citizens who are completely innocent of any legal wrongdoing and simply minding their own business--not seeking any litigation and neither convi...”
“Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?”
“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”
“I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.”
“But I believe that, once the shock settles, faith and energy will return. Because lets be real: we always knew this shit wasnt going to be easy. Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power ...”
“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a ...”
“Make noise for justice.Make noise for inclusion.Make noise for empathy.Make noise for our planet.Make noise for civil rights.Make noise for womens rights.Make noise for compassion.Make noise for LOVE.”
“Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.”
