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For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

The age of the book is almost gone.

We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.