So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for and sometimes winning and sometimes losing the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and more generally for freedom of speech.

In the literal sense there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind the very birthright of humanity.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

In 1960 when I came out of prison as an ex-convict I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

If the events of September 11 2001 have proven anything it's that the terrorists can attack us but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom our liberty our civil rights. No only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy human rights and freedom of expression.