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"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists"
Jon Ronson, Journalist
"When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?"
Benjamin Harrison, President
"I know many young conservatives all across the country that are isolated and ostracized due to their beliefs. They are portrayed as bigots, misogynists and ignorant just because they are conservative"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice"
Ronald Reagan, President
"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available"
Ronald Reagan, President
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"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"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"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"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness"
Victor Hugo, Author
"Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit"
Victor Hugo, Author
"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution"
Victor Hugo, Author
"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do is join a union"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education"
John Ruskin, Writer
"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion"
John Ruskin, Writer
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others"
Will Rogers, Actor
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless"
B. F. Skinner, Psychologist
"John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves"
John Wayne, Actor
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"What rights are those that dare not resist for them?"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
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