Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights read more

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the read more

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the read more

We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights read more

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your read more

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn read more

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases read more

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.