| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Att synda genom tysthet, när de borde protestera, gör män till fegisar. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Civila rättigheter öppnade fönsterna. När du öppnar fönsterna, behöver det inte betyda att alla kan komma in. Vi måste skapa våra egna möjligheter. | Mary Frances Berry (1938-) |
| När vi ger den rätt till andra som tillhör dem, ger vi oss själva och vårt land rätt också. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Varje man har rätt att få ha fel i sina åsikter. Men ingen man har rätt att ha fel om fakta. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. | A. Philip Randolph (1889-) |
| Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. | William J. Brennan, Jr. |
| When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. | Marquis De Lafayette (1757-) |
| With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. | Edison Haines |
| Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. | Carl Schurz (1829-) |
| In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom | Mary Ritter Beard |
| Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some | Tom Tomorrow |
| A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the sc | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment. | George F. Will (1941-) |