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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn’t extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.