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Some of my favorite quotes:
All that serves labor serves the nation all that
harms is treason.
If a man tells you he loves America yet hates
labor he is a liar. If a man tells you he trusts America yet fears labor, he is
a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece one is to rob the
other. ~~~~~Abraham
Lincoln
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Whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to
institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of
Independence)
The price of freedom is eternal
vigilance. Thomas
Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
A little rebellion now and
then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas
Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to James Madison, 1787
Question with boldness even the
existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve
of the homage of reason
than that of blindfolded faith.
Thomas
Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man
love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty
important. ~~~~Martin Luther King Jr.
- When you are right you cannot be too radical;
when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ~~~Martin
Luther King Jr.
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- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.
- ~~~~Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from a
Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
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Commenting on the Fourth of July
Celebration:
- The focus of this celebration invites a
complacent belief that the vision of those who debated and compromised in
Philadelphia yielded the "more perfect Union" it is said we now
enjoy.
I cannot accept this invitation, for I do
not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever
"fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom,
foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly
profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from
the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social
transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its
respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental
today. When contemporary Americans cite "The Constitution," they
invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the Framers barely began
to construct two centuries ago. ~~~Former Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall
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- Do what you
feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be
damned if you do, and damned if you don't. ~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt
         
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