Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
4/6/2020
- Published in Equal rights, Justice, Leadership
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
4/6/2020
- Published in Equal rights, Justice, Policy
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
4/6/2020
- Published in Equal rights, Ethics, Human RIghts, Justice
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.
4/6/2020
- Published in Community, Equal rights, Justice, Politics
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- Published in Justice
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Published in Justice, Leadership