Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 198 Civil Rights quotesCivil Rights QuotesCivil Rights Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.~ Lawana Blackwell Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice…~ Joseph L. Blau 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.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.~ Justice William J. Brennan Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution.~ Orville Browning We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund Burke After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.~ George Herbert Walker Bush When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.~ Al Capone America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.~ Jimmy Carter The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.~ Shirley Chisholm If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.~ Noam Chomsky The price of greatness is responsibility.~ Sir Winston Churchill A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print