Civil Rights Quotes
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-- Eleanor Holmes Norton
We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.
-- Barack Obama
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.
-- Thomas Paine
I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
-- Rosa ParksAll of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -- that book I abhor -- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
-- Katherine PattersonDemanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.
-- US Representative Ron Paul
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
-- Wendell Phillips
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.
-- Pope John XXIII, 1881-1963 Pacem in Terris, 1963Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-- William Proxmire
-- A. Philip Randolph
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man is above the law and no man below it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Civil Rights Quotes
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CIVIL RIGHTS
HERO PIX
Noam Chomsky | Frederick Douglass | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Thomas Jefferson | Abraham Lincoln | James Madison |
George Mason | Eleanor Holmes Norton | A. Philip Randolph |
Wendell Wilkie | Roy WilkinsCivil Rights Day - August 12
Citizenship Day - September 17
Bill Of Rights Day - December 15
Human Rights Day - December 10
