Amendment Quotes

422 quotes by 291 authors

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the… — Huey Newton
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech… — Ronald L. Buckwalter
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech… — Stewart Dalzell
The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. — Alan Dershowitz
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. — Robert Bork
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment… — Cass Sunstein
There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The… — Eben Moglen
Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch… — Vashti McCollum
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that… — Floyd Abrams
Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free… — Roxane Gay
Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he… — Mark Twight
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions. — Ed Koch
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation,… — Cass Sunstein
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. — Cass Sunstein
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free… — Ted Cruz
Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a… — Massad Ayoob
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things. — Ron Paul
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed… — Frances Farenthold
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. — Henry Louis Gates

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