Quotes About Civil Rights And Liberties

#1. After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.

Niger Innis

#2. The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

Ayn Rand

#3. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

Joe Biden

#4. We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#5. If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

Diplo

#6. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

Felix Frankfurter

#7. Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

Ira Glasser

#8. There is no control over memory.

Jean Rhys

#9. The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Terence McKenna

#10. Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

Gina McCarthy

#11. Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

Frank Lautenberg

#12. You can screw Nevada,
Mess with Maine,
Leave Hawaii in a puddle of pain.
You can beat Virginia
till she's down on the floor.
But if you fuck with Tex,
You'll be on your knees for sure!

Jeff Williams

#13. The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.

Edward Bennett Williams

#15. Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?

Cory Doctorow

#16. There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bianca Jagger

#17. When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#18. Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears,
Fever'd the progress of these years,
Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem
The recollection of a dream.

Walter Scott

#19. When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Andy Andrews

#20. National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political gamesmanship. - Kelly Paul

David Baldacci

#21. It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

Learned Hand

#22. Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

Thomas Moore

#23. What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#24. I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

Sara Gilbert

#25. Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.

Rush Limbaugh

#26. I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

Karl Pilkington

#27. Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Esther Dyson

#28. George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

#29. We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Paul Broun

#30. No two directors make the same film the same way.

Rob Cohen

#31. The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

James McGreevey

#32. The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

Philip DeFranco

#33. By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk.

Jonathan Eller

#34. What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

Friedrich Nietzsche