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
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and well being - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and quality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
- Published in Equal rights, Ethics, Justice