#bertie

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#enslave #human #human being #liberties #liberty

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this very hour. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#activism #agitation #dissent #human-rights #liberties

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#began #directors #i #ignore #liberties

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#arabic #certain #i #i can #i do

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#first of all #freedom #health #liberties

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.' ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american #attack #been #constitution #i

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#civil #civil liberties #clear #liberties #me

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#civil #civil liberties #continues #democrats #essential

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that "Popery" when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#been #catholics #dangerous #encouraged #government