ADVOCATES FOR CITIZENS’ RIGHTS

“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do… but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.”

— Edmund Burke

Our Mission:

Protect.

We protect the civil liberties and basic human rights of people.  At base, we believe that all citizens have a fundamental right to free speech, to worship, to movement, to peaceably assemble, to petition the government, to bear arms, to remain not enslaved, and to equality.  We bring awareness to government encroachment into such basic rights, as well as coordinating legal defense for individuals harmed from such actions.

Our Values

TRUTH

We are true to our calling.
“First, do no harm.”

—Hippocrates

justice

We combat injustice because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

—Martin Luther King

ACTION

We speak – always we speak – because we understand history

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemoller