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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Stichwörter: intelligence liberty free-will freedom stupidity free-speech civil-rights

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 And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

Stichwörter: truth civil-rights racism human-rights

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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Stichwörter: drugs civil-rights marijuana prohibition drug-laws civil-liberties

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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Jon Stewart

Stichwörter: funny civil-rights patriot-act ashcroft

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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Harvey Milk

Stichwörter: inspirational gay lgbt civil-rights

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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 evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]

Louis D. Brandeis

Stichwörter: liberty freedom government civil-rights privacy encroachment policy

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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

Cory Doctorow

Stichwörter: civil-rights terrorism civil-liberties war-on-terror surveillance osama-bin-laden

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We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

Fred Hampton

Stichwörter: civil-rights racism human-rights revolutionary black-panther-party bpp solidarity

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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Herb Ritts

Stichwörter: individuality liberty america usa expression civil-rights homosexuality americans gay-rights

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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Timothy B. Tyson