Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.