Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings'.

They were real concerned when people started talking about sacrificing civil liberties for national security.

While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffered was 'exactly the same'. This is an extremely dangerous point of view. While it is true that the Polish labour camps contained some repugnant examples of extreme sadism towards Germans, there is absolutely no evidence to show that this was part of an official policy of extermination.