To Protest Against Injustice Is

History Teaches That Grave Threats To Liberty Often Come In Times Of Urgency, When Constitutional Rights Seem Too Extravagant To Endure.

We Can Always Stick Together When We Are Losing, But Tend To Find Means Of Breaking Up When We're Winning. In Grace Under Pressure, By Hastie, 1984.

To The Contrary, The Government They Devised Was Defective From The Start, Requiring Several Amendments, A Civil War And Momentous Social Transformation To Attain The System Of Constitutional Government, And Its Respect For The Individual Freedoms And Human Rights, We Hold As Fundamental Today.

We Must Dissent From The Indifference. We Must Dissent From The Apathy. We Must Dissent From The Fear, The Hatred And The Mistrust. We Must Dissent From A Nation That Has Buried Its Head In The Sand, Waiting In Vain For The Needs Of Its Poor, Its Elderly, And Its Sick To Disappear And Just Blow Away. We Must Dissent From A Government That Has Left Its Young Without Jobs, Education Or Hope. We Must Dissent From The Poverty Of Vision And The Absence Of Moral Leadership. We Must Dissent Because America Can Do Better, Because America Has No Choice But To Do Better.

The First Amendment Serves Not Only The Needs Of The Polity But Also Those Of The Human Spirit - A Spirit That Demands Self-expression .