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Civil Rights Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
- I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…
- It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
- If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the…
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
- The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
- [If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if…
- The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right…
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject…
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of…
- To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
- The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
- I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or…
- The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
- Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them…
- The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
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- During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden
- A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. — Bono
- The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — William J. Brennan
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
- The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history,… — Herman Cain
- Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of… — David Cameron
- One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi… — Jack Canfield
- I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
- There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael
- So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating… — Stokely Carmichael