I am one of those persons who doesn’t believe that a political party ought to be just a rallying ground for anybody that wants to get under the tent…. The best way in the world to strengthen the progressive elements in American politics, the liberal elements, is to permit people who have been denied certain […]
Civil Rights Quotes
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
The most subversive force in America today is Joe McCarthy. No one is so effectively importing alien conceptions into American government. No one is doing so much to damage the country’s prestige abroad and its power to act effectively at home. If “subversion” is to be met by deportation, then it is time to deport […]
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.
