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“That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.”

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?”

Should War Country Humanity Courses Peace Justice Freedom Liberty Taken Security Depends Glory Shame Safety Injustice Cruelty Consideration Resolution

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.”

Men Ends Humanity Hurt Liberty Enemy Regard Sticks Injustice Accomplish Profession Tyranny Secure Sincere Sincerity Cunning Endeavour Public Good

Book:Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Source: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

Source: Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption

“God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.”

Ifs Men Way Hands Hate Asks Speak Voice Liberty Sweet And Love Clean Injustice Clean Hands Sweet Voice

Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

“The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.”

Justice Liberty Moral Injustice Pursuit Resolution Righteous Veils Indignation Moral Indignation

Author:Mark Levin

“The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.”

“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.”

Mean Behinds Liberty Movement Sick Strategy Tired Meetings Inspired Injustice Being Sick

Author:Aisha Hinds

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”