The laboring people found the prisons always open to receive them,
but the courts of justice were practically closed to them.
-- John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902)
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....