“A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.” IdeasFeelingsGovernmentSexBehindsLibertyGrowing UpGrowingFeetShoesChineseMaskDisabilityBrooksTurkishAntagonismDeep Feeling Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.” BeautifulNamesChristBehindsLibertyCallingClaimsPrivilegeDrawingServantGloriousDiscipleBehind You Author:Horace Bushnell
“From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.” WorldWayHas BeensWarNationsCommonBehindsLibertyHeroCitizensOrdinaryTraditionFolksDefenseStoresTyrannyRevolutionaryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarClassroomBattlefieldsRevolutionary WarOrdinary Citizens Author:Alan Keyes
“Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.” TryingLooksHandsBehindsLibertyMilitaryConsequenceProgramDefensePreservesWarningSecretaryCiaPerks Author:Mark Riebling
“When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.” HumansCountryPurposeNationsCausesBehindsLibertyRightsMankindDangerDutyLeavingHungerHuman RightsSatisfactionAidsWoundsDevotionSicknessHeroicSublimeToilBannerSinglenessSingleness Of Purpose Author:Carl Schurz
“Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.” LittlesSoulEndsEarthBehindsLibertySunAimCirclesShouldersChainsTheeDawnOur ThoughtsHailRedeemingChains That Bind Author:Adam Mickiewicz
“Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.” HomeValuesNationsBehindsLibertySacrificeWallProudDown AndDefenseCherishMentalitySuspicionMistrustSiege Author:Barack Obama
“The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.” MenLittlesFactsGovernmentAbilityBehindsKnownLibertySupportHonestTheoryIntegrityAverageChosenSuperiorsManageReasonableRepresentativesInferiorsSuperior ManRepresentative Government Author:H. L. Mencken
“What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?” IfsChristianReligiousBehindsLibertyWindowGlassesSundayReligious LibertyStained GlassStained Glass Windows Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.” MenHouseNationsJusticeBehindsLibertyDemocracyProtectApproachMen And WomenEndureIraqSymbolsBirthdayFlagsUniformsFittingBattlefieldsAmerican Flag Author:Joey Barton
“Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.” FirstsHomeEyeBehindsLibertyStepsEarsLiberationCognitiveSteps Forward Author:Mark Pesce
“[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.” PeopleWorldWayHeartFactsRealityLightCulturePresidentBehindsLibertyDarknessSecuritySeriousBlindShiningThreatDemocraticTerroristDenialAddressesCivilizedMedievalPragmaticMuslim World Author:David Horowitz
“I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.” KindInterestJusticeBehindsLibertyRolesPostsNot SureRootedJudaismTwistsTheologicalMarxistFraternityTrajectoryCfsEschatologyDerridaStructuralism Author:George Pattison
“If you want a candidate to defend life and marriage and religious liberty and the Second Amendment and to appoint strong constitutionalists to the court, I'm the only candidate with that record. That's why conservatives are uniting behind our campaign. And if they want to continue with the attacks, that's their prerogative.” IfsWantStrongReligiousBehindsLibertyRecordsCourtCampaignsCandidatesAmendmentsSecond AmendmentPrerogativeReligious LibertyUniting Author:Ted Cruz
“Harriet Tubman didn't have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement, she was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death, one or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.” MeanBehindsLibertyMovementSickStrategyTiredMeetingsInspiredInjusticeBeing Sick Author:Aisha Hinds