“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.” GovernmentLawLyingLibertyPrinciplesSubjectsPositionCitizensFoundationDenyCommandCivil RightsOfficialsExceptionalCivil LibertiesGovernment OfficialsLaw Courts Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.” MenWellsMayGovernmentNationsHoursMoralDestinyStruggleIssuesRightsHe ManEternalLateDetermineCivil RightsCommunismClockToo LateStatus QuoGuardianIdeologicalEphemeralReactionariesMoral Issues Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases, will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of People comprehended under the same Government.” PeopleMayCountryGovernmentInterestReligiousNumbersCasesRightsSecurityDependsDegreesCivil RightsSectsMultiplicityFree GovernmentReligious Rights Book:The Federalist Source: The Federalist
“Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.” PeopleWorldGovernmentTodayRightsCrimeInvolvedCourtCivil RightsGuiltyGenocideConspiracyExpectingCitizenshipRedressWasting Your Time Author:Malcolm X