A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.
Sandra Day O'ConnorTag: politics war civil-rights
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.
Roy WilkinsTag: civil-rights
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
Tag: equality civil-rights
...legitimate powers of government reach actions only,
Thomas JeffersonTag: religion government civil-rights organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
Thomas JeffersonTag: science opinions physics civil-rights geometry
If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?
Tag: integrity change moral-courage action civil-rights personal-responsibility
To-day, in more than half of Europe, man is at the mercy of the police; in 1900 even the most conservative and reactionary Prussian Junker would have been unable to imagine, let alone approve, that a citizen could be arrested and kept in prision at the pleasure of the Government.
Salvador de MadariagaTag: civil-rights
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
Thomas JeffersonTag: religious-freedom civil-rights
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
Aung San Suu KyiTag: civil-rights
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 senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
Adam SelzerTag: women history civil-rights wieners
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