Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity

We in New York chose effective law enforcement and disregarded the respect for civil rights and civil liberties. We chose the former over the latter. That was a colossal error in judgment.

There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.

If I had to pick three overall areas: civil rights, access to justice and, I think, privacy.

a great advocate for social justice . . . she fights for affordable housing, civil rights and economic empowerment.

This is the first time that the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice has filed against a hotel chain on a nationwide basis.