Civil Rights quotes
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"The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America."
"It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation"
"I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right."
"The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats."
"The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume."
"Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him."
"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone."
"The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information."
"The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves."
"Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal."
"In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march."
"Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice."
