Branches Quote by Diane Watson

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

— Herb Kohl

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

— Anna Quindlen

Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James…

— Noam Chomsky

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

— Barbara Jordan

What about the majority? I'm so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?

— Ainsley Earhardt

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

— James Madison

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

— James K. Polk

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in…

— Byron White

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch…

— Sandra Day O'Connor