Civil rights Quote by Christian Parenti

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to…

— Louis Stokes

It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times,…

— Clint Eastwood

“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and activism—Martin Luther…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners…

— Charles Stross

“Hoover condemned the proposal for the CIA as nothing but the “dreams of visionary but impractical empire-builders.”

— Tim Weiner

“This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information.…

— David Foster Wallace

“watched in mounting frustration, as the perversely named Patriot Acts (One and Two) had become law.  Then came the Total Information Awareness program, which…

— Matthew Bracken

“More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world.”

— Steve Berry

I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up…

— Tim Lee

They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights…

— Malcolm X

“FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had made the Black Panthers a top priority and, naturally, had publicly “declared war” on them.”

— Radley Balko