When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale This is…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few,…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”—Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist America…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out ……
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise;…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.”—Thomas Paine The government wants your…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours…