The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done – the right should make the law.
Civil Rights Quotes
All I felt was tired. Tired of being pushed around. Tired of seeing the bad treatment and disrespect of children, women and men just because of the color of their skin. Tired of Jim Crow laws. Tired of being oppressed. I was just plain tired. I felt the Lord would give me strength to endure […]
It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy… History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly, at first, then […]
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection – they have many friends and few enemies.
Those of us who grew up in the Sixties feel we shared a unique experience. From the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, to the Civil Rights movements in the south, to the Vietnam War and the Counterculture, and everywhere in between, the Sixties represent a significant time period in our country’s history.
