Most striking, however, was the position taken in the…

“Other historical characters mentioned in the novel include Denmark Vesey, who had planned a slave revolt in Charleston, and William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist.…

— 5 Minute Publications

“As the war went on, opposition grew. The American Peace Society printed a newspaper, the Advocate of Peace, which published poems, speeches, petitions, sermons…

— Howard Zinn

When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me…

— Sara Paretsky

“Nothing in all history,” William Lloyd Garrison wrote, equaled “this wonderful, quiet, sudden transformation of four millions of human beings from . . . the auction-block to…

— Ron Chernow

Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will…

— Ann Coulter

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the…

— Bill Vaughan

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even…

— Henry David Thoreau

We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that…

— John Marshall Harlan II

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens.…

— John Marshall Harlan