We do need to think about how we have security - everyone has a right to that - but we also need to think about how we maintain civil rights and personal freedom.

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.