A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge. — Amy Waldman, The Submission

What is taking place here should be made very clear: Citizens who are completely innocent of any legal wrongdoing and si — Stephen Baskerville, Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family

But I believe that, once the shock settles, faith and energy will return. Because let’s be real: we always knew this shi — Junot Díaz

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by fin — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember — Shannon L. Alder

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we re — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

$Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fracture — Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power$

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most contro — Ralph Ellison

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Gordon W. Allport

The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do — Anthony Liccione

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in di — Martin Luther King Jr.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

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