Constitutional Rights Quotes - Page 4

• If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Rights, Answers, Porcelain

  "Personal Email and Private Clouds Fall in War on Privacy". www.infoworld.com. August 09, 2013.

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• I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

  Christina Stead

  Men, Rights, Hypocrisy

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.279, Head of Zeus

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• Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Rights, Law

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

  Frank Murphy

  Trust, Rights, Giving

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• When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

  Bobby Seale

  Hippie, Rights, Pigs

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

  Antonin Scalia

  Pride, Army, Gun

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• History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Rights, Historical

  "Neither Liberty, Nor Safety" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1989.

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• I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.'

  Ted Olson

  Military, Rights, Virginia

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