“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
“When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.” PeopleBigsLawHouseWhiteRightsMovementOughtCivil RightsAccomplishedWhite HouseInvitationsCivil Rights MovementBig HousesBreaking The LawAnathema Author:Mike Huckabee
“The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.” HumansIdeasLawPoliticalNaturalRaceRightsCenturyMembersEnlightenmentIllCivil RightsHuman RaceAssertionNatural Law Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.” PeopleStoriesCareLawPoliticalRightsCongressDon't CareGenuineDiscriminationCivil RightsBagsMaryJohnsonDisabledPunchingPunching Bag Author:William Greider
“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.” MenMayLawIndividualSocialCommunityClassRightsConditionsMilitaryDutyCivilizationEqualPrivilegeAbsenceCivil RightsDefinedDependentBelongingDividedEstatesTaxationJuryLiableImmunityImpositionMilitary ServiceExemptionJury Duty Author:James F. Cooper
“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” Would BeLawRightsProtectEqualMajorityCivil RightsOppressionMinoritiesOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.” MenShouldMayDoeLawPoliticalLibertySubjectsOughtCitizensPleaseSafetyNotionCivil RightsSecureFramed Author:Catherine the Great