Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel
Norman Siegelwas the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union. Siegel served as director from 1985 until 2000...
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Michael Bloomberg, don't be nasty and mean. Be positive. Together, we can improve race relations in New York.
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We in New York chose effective law enforcement and disregarded the respect for civil rights and civil liberties. We chose the former over the latter. That was a colossal error in judgment.
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We should be praising these grandmothers, not prosecuting them.
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We believe the settlement was fair in that it provides Ms. Mack and her two sons with compensatory damages for the violation of their civil rights in that the police executed an erroneous no-knock search warrant.
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It has potential for great harm. We are going to be watching them very closely.
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More than 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education said very simply that separate is inherently unequal,
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We believe that an all-black school, an all-girls' school still offends that doctrine.
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Unfortunately, he's a child who felt rejected from the very beginning. I think it's a double rejection for him.
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We're extremely pleased. The court system worked here.
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The decision today says the First Amendment protects you to protest peacefully. So -- go do it!
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They didn't know what they were dealing with.
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Any reasonable person would have known he was not there on behalf of the city and was there as an individual.
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The more information that they issue would shed more light on what actually happened.
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They were found not guilty. They are great Americans, and they walk the shoes of great Americans who have made America the place that it is.