There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient's taking the law... into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... ar...e looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorise the violation of every positive law. How far that or any o...ther consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A separation situation is different for adults than it is for children. When we were very young children, a physical separation wa...s interpreted as a violation of our inalienable rights....As we grew older, the withdrawal of love, whether that meant being misunderstood, mislabeled or slighted, became the separation situation we responded to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Church... or State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Injustice, cruelty, restraint of conscience, oppression, falsity, dishonour, deceit, violation of law and equity?--But look how th...ey have cleaned up the cities and what wonderful roads they have built!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ambition which leads me on is an anxious desire and a fixed determination to return to the people unimpaired the sacred trust ...they have confided to my charge; to heal the wounds of the Constitution and preserve it from further violation; to persuade my countrymen, so far as I may, that it is not in a splendid government supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratical establishments that they will find happiness or their liberties protection, but in a plain system, void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none, dispensing its blessings, like the dews of Heaven, unseen and unfelt save in the freshness and beauty they contribute to produce. It is such a government that the genius of the people requires; such an [sic] one only under which our states may remain for ages to come united, prosperous, and free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to vio...late in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is ev...il, dangerous, or subversive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »