From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a read more

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.

A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you read more

A fact is like a sack --it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn read more

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to read more

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases read more

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights read more

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.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.