Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government
from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
~Justice William J. Brennan, 1982
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul
by making me hate him.
~Booker T. Washington
I think you should defend to the death their right to march,
and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.
~Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~Barry Goldwater
Hatred is one long wait.
~René Maran
A racially integrated community is a chronological term
timed from the entrance of the first black family
to the exit of the last white family.
~Saul Alinsky
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away
than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
~Carl T. Rowan
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
~Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
~Robert Frost
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women
join the unqualified men in running our government.
~Cissy Farenthold
Racism is man's gravest threat to man
- the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel
Silence never won rights.
They are not handed down from above;
they are forced by pressures from below.
~Roger Baldwin
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape,
it would be the shape of a boomerang.
~Charley Reese
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink
as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
~Will Rogers
Take care that no one hates you justly.
~Publilius Syrus