Democracy Quote by Neal Katyal

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness…

— Rick Perlstein

There is no doubt that dissents can serve a useful role by explaining when a justice thinks the majority has gone off the deep…

— Neal Katyal

“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be…

— Thomas Browne

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of…

— Robert Kennedy

“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against…

— John Stuart Mill

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the…

— Rollo May

“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh…

— William Lloyd Garrison

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

— Henry Steele Commager

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

— Ron Paul

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

— Alice Walker

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger…

— Ellen G. White