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If
we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitiable.
-- John F. Kennedy
“In giving rights to others
which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country”
-- John
F. Kennedy |
I
believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute --
where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how
to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote
-- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference
-- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs
from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
-- John F. Kennedy
*
The
enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and
abiding practice of any western society.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy |  |
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"Whatever
career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose
an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil
rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor,
a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else
possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring
from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit
yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person
of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"When the government
violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion
of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties."
-- Marquis De Lafayette
It
is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political,
economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State
exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings
in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having
a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his
own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping
to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies,
courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.
-- C. S. Lewis
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"The
Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one
hundred defeats."
-- Abraham
Lincoln *
“Don't
interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is
the only safeguard of our liberties.”
-- Abraham
Lincoln To
sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
-- Abraham
Lincoln
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*
I
believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpations.
-- James
Madison |  |
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*
Get
up, stand up, stand up for your rights”
-- Bob
Marley |
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If
the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling
a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he
may watch.
-- Thurgood
Marshall |
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All
men are by nature born equally free and independent.
-- George
Mason We
came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
-- George
Mason *
Every
society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought
to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
-- George
Mason |
*
If
all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified
in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified
in silencing mankind.
-- John
Stuart Mill | 
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Of the liberty of
conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial
by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ
of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well
defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should
ever degenerate into tyranny.
-- James Monroe
The
busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a
zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms
-- A Nation of Finger Pointers.
-- Lance Morrow
Fascism
should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power.
-- Benito Mussolini
See
also HUMAN RIGHTS Quotes
