There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America
have been in a position of trying to stop them. With all the wealth of
America, with all of the military strength of America, those
revolutions are revolutions against a form of political and economic
organization in the countries of Asia and the Middle East that are
oppressive. They are revolutions against feudalism. [1952]
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
-- President John F. Kennedy
The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not
be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but
living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....