Liberty (pressure Group)
Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. Its formal name is the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL). Founded in 1934 by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith (later Scaffardi), the group campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights. Liberty campaigns to protect basic rights and freedoms through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community. They do this through a combination of public campaigning, test case litigation, parliamentary lobbying, policy analysis and the provision of free advice and information. Its current director is Shami Chakrabarti who took the role in September 2003.
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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country—men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)