Courts Quote by Antonin Scalia Download Open image “It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.” — Antonin Scalia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courts Courts Invent Minorities Minorities Special New New Minorities Special Special Protections Up
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I think this is what the system is designed for is to protect white people, young white people, especially young white men. I'm not… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
It's a shame that ethnic minorities aren't getting a crack at different types of roles. There needs to be a bit of a change. — Georgina Campbell Copy Share Image
Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea?… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ.… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch.… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts. — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts. — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to… — Tammy Faye Bakker Copy Share Image
