“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.
“All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]” StillsLawRaceRightsEternalSicknessForts Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.” IndividualRightsTruth IsEternal Author:Bertha von Suttner
“The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.” ShouldHumansLawCommunityNaturalLibertyPrinciplesRightsMoralityEternalConscienceBillsObligationCivil LibertiesBill Of RightsHuman Power Author:Thomas Paine
“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.” MenJusticeRaceRightsConditionsColorEternalPrejudiceCalmScalesGoldenDustShakesBalancedCastes Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.” FirstsMatterFactsLawForceNationsRightsLandEternalStandingArmyBillsPressesAddProtectionAidsTrialsProvidingMonopolyRestrictionJuryMatter Of FactBill Of RightsFreedom Of The PressFreedom Of ReligionOmissionCorpusTrial By JuryHabeas Corpus Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson