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• The only test of our integrity of purpose is our willingness to defend persons with whom we totally disagree.
  -- Roger Baldwin, ACLU co-founde...
• 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....
• Our rights remain rights only as long as we have the prudence not to test them -- Mark Twai
• So we 'll go no more a-roving So late into the night. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- So we 'll go
• First, we were making the effort there so that people would have their own right to decide their own future, and could select their own form of government .
  .. Now we're saying we're going to fight there so that we don't have to fight in Thailand, so we don't have to fight on the West Coast of the United States, so that they won't move across the Rockies....
• We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean. -- Carl Saga
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Goethe
• We have watched American democracy at close hand for many years and we believe few governments are institutionally so susceptible to dictatorship as this one.
  -- Gerald Johnso...