civil-rights

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Self defense is the inherent right of an individual to repel any unwarranted attack. Governments are not individuals and should not have the power to restrict or invalidate a person's ability to defend him/herself.

You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It's that simple.Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out or else it will be crushed by the tyranny of wickedness.

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.__ __ Have a Dream_ speech is one citizen__ soul-searing plea with his countrymen___hites and Blacks___o recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America__ ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life___ike children and love and time___ust never be taken for granted.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

In terms of our elected officials, I think we need to ask...: How far should we go with our need to know before we completely veer off into the personal and the private and leave behind any chance of having a legitimate debate or discussion or discourse about the issues at hand?

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, and white vigilantes. These boys weren't kidding. And neither were we.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free_and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

There are no secrets on the Internet

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of the soil prepared by the collective but blind will of a hundred million people. I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by our own hands. I ask you to recognize laws and processes flowing from such a condition, understand them, seek to change them. If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.