To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
“After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton 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
“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
“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
I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
“Q: What can people do to defend their civil liberties? Phillips: I'm a pacifist, but the most American thing you can do… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so… — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“If this new breed of activist urged Obama to hammer away at the Constitution, old-school civil libertarians lamented its demolition. The longtime… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on… — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field.… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
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