In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Many members of the Hollywood community are very liberal and they value their civil liberties more than they value life. I disagree… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death. — John Howard Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.” — Carl-John X. Veraja Copy Share Image
“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Innovation is important, but what kind of a moronic species races to put a man on the moon, before it takes its… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“To treat disease you need medical license, To treat injustice being human is enough. To fly a plane you need pilot's license,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“The Singapore School of Thought, as some began to call it, emphasised the lack of universality of many Western political norms...Singapore's own… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
“We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state… Somehow it… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Seek yourself in the joy of neighbors, You shall know the meaning of justice. Seek yourself in smiles of the world, You… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Now, I’d like to ask people in the room, please raise your hand if you have not broken a law, any law,… — John Gilmore Copy Share Image
“Faith should be a tool to set us free, not a means to fuel a fascist agenda seeking to impede the civil… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
“Zombies have got to do a lot of hanging around together--weaklings, liars, cheaters. Everybody respects them these days, everybody thinks that if… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“On June 20, at Johnson’s behest, Attorney General James Speed ordered the U.S. attorney in Norfolk to abandon Lee’s prosecution. On the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom is embedded within a much larger bundle of civil liberties. At the core of religious expression is the freedom of… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“We (the left) have to be used to being a minority—a small minority—for some time to come. The odd thing is that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Nature of Truth (The Sonnet) Do you realize how serious the situation is, Are you aware of the lives ruined… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
With the passing away of Mr Tarkunde, India has lost the father of the Civil Liberties movement in the country. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. — George Soros Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
