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Roger Nash Baldwin was an influential American civil rights activist, born in 1884. As the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920, Baldwin dedicated his life to fighting for the protection of individual freedoms. With his unwavering commitment to justice, he played a key role in shaping civil liberties laws in the United States. Baldwin's prominent advocacy for free speech, racial equality, and due process is still celebrated today. Discover more about this remarkable champion of human rights in our comprehensive biography of Roger Nash Baldwin.

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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

- Roger Nash Baldwin

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

- Roger Nash Baldwin

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

- Roger Nash Baldwin

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

- Roger Nash Baldwin

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

- Roger Nash Baldwin

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

- Roger Nash Baldwin