Action Quote by Rashida Tlaib

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

— Major Owens

If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing…

— Milton Friedman

I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health,…

— Kamala Harris

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

— Edward Snowden

Banning guns, drugs, alcohol, premarital sex, political incorrectness, and gay marriage hasn't worked. We should ban Life. So long as even one of us…

— Rock Cowles

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

— Richard Lamm

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the…

— Desmond Tutu

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

— Robert H. Jackson

Arresting opposition leaders and restricting civil society will not stop people from protesting, but it can create leaderless movements that leave no one with…

— Tom Malinowski

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious…

— William Eldridge Odom

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the…

— Paul Singer