Equal Protection Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow…
— John Sparkman
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Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
— Charles Rangel
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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any…
— Potter Stewart
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We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to…
— Bill Maher
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We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and…
— Henry Franklin Floyd
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NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our…
— Xavier Becerra
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What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the…
— Evan Wolfson
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America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which…
— Joe Biden
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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
— Michael Kinsley
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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
— Cass Sunstein
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My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These…
— Edmund Burke
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It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.
— Barack Obama
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The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.…
— Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings…
— Michael Kinsley
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Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.
— Barack Obama
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As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise…
— John Holdren
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Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
— James McGreevey
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied…
— Harvey Fierstein
Who Wrote These Equal Protection Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Equal Protection Quotes as follows: