“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.” MindPoliticsRightsTragedyBillsThreatClimateCommunismPatrioticInsightfulRepressionConcealedCloaksSinisterBill Of RightsAnti Communism Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.” PeopleRightsAuthorityPatrioticNo Respect Author:George Bancroft
“And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.” NeedsCountryProblemPastRightsCitizensLessonsCivil RightsErasPatrioticHeritageOrganize Author:Taylor Branch
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” PeopleShouldGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsRightsBillsRefuseCivil RightsPatrioticEntitledBill Of RightsIndividual RightsInferenceCentral Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” MindWould BeLawPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyPrinciplesCasesRightsBearsProtectEqualSacredMajorityEqualityCivil RightsOppressionReasonableMinoritiesPatrioticOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityEqual ProtectionPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.” PeopleGivingFeelsShouldTryingMadeSaidWarCountryAmericaNationsWhiteEnemyRightsPositionComfortCrossesRootsAimAidsCivil RightsBurningPatrioticSupportiveDissentSean Author:Ann Coulter