Children Quote by John Lewis

“Four Millions of people heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land, not citizens of the United States, nor eligible to become so,…

— Ron Chernow

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

— Fred Korematsu

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that…

— Frank Chodorov

You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the government, something…

— Edward Snowden

I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech…

— Rose O'Neal Greenhow

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

— Robert Bork

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn…

— Charles Tupper

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about…

— Noam Chomsky

Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara,…

— Barack Obama

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

— Monica Vitti