States’ rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states’ rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . . The time is long past – if indeed it ever existed – when we should permit the noble concept of States’ rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights.

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