Quotes about Civil liberties

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You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are qu — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, t — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American — Glenn Greenwald
On problems finding female ancestors,of any background, remember "I cannot put gas in my car without a note from my husb — christina kassabian schaefer
From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is — John F. Kennedy
Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. Th — Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, deni — Daniel Keys Moran, The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. — Frederick Douglass
Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the — Neil Nakadate, Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir
Perhaps they'd been conditioned by all the quarantines and blackouts, all the invisible boundaries CSIRA erected on a mo — Peter Watts, Maelstrom
Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. — Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with — William F. Buckley Jr.
Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is — A.E. Samaan
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? — Cory Doctorow
We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them. — Carl-John X. Veraja