In wake of black teen Trayvon Martin's death, USA is soul-searching – USATODAY.com:
Everyone should be out in the streets marching. If it were your child, what would you be doing? Thomas Jefferson stated "Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operation, perverted it into tyranny." Henry David Thoreau, an American Libertarian writer, stated "Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it." Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet, stated "Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs." Ralph M. LaFollette, American political & reform leader, stated "Let no man think that we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves...." Clarence Darrow, an American lawyer, stated "As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever." Finally, Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, stated "Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law." If you do not take a stand, you will fall for anything. Where do you stand? Are you scared to stand up?
