The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence.…

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do…

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negro…

There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without f…

If we confuse dissent with disloyalty - if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox - if we deny the essence of raci…