Louis brandeis Quote by Jeffrey Rosen Download Open image “Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.” — Jeffrey Rosen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Louis brandeis Racist Wilson Woodrow wilson
Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers.… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“The danger of rejecting America’s founding principles is illustrated best in this instance by Wilson himself. As is well documented, Wilson was an open… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level.… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Olson’s case, he would later say, amounted to “one big Brandeis brief,” a term that refers to twentieth-century litigator Louis Brandeis, who in 1908… — Jo Becker Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
![“Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/14a/jeffrey-rosen-13180_african-american_unlike-woodrow-wilson-louis-brandeis-did_1775796.jpg)
![“It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6c/jeffrey-rosen-13180_able_it-s-unfortunate-that-louis-brandeis-was_603580.jpg)
![“Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/438/jeffrey-rosen-13180_blind_justice-jefferson-has-a-blind-spot-on-ra_2417525.jpg)
![“The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis is he had this vision of cultural pluralism that completely gave the lie to the idea that there was any inconsistency between being Jewish or being a woman…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/862/jeffrey-rosen-13180_african-american_the-tyranny-of-harvard-and-yale-is-anoth_2229543.jpg)
![“[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71e/jeffrey-rosen-13180_benches_louis-brandeis-had-a-very-distinctive-vi_909372.jpg)
![“I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike down centralizing federal agencies in the New Deal, and uphold state economic experimentation.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d86/jeffrey-rosen-13180_agency_i-came-to-believe-that-actually-louis-br_2995621.jpg)
![“I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/22e/jeffrey-rosen-13180_answers_i-think-the-answer-has-to-do-with-the-fa_3064957.jpg)
![“I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you start with the paradigm case, which in the case of the Fourth Amendment was these general warrants or writs of assistance, but you define it at a level of abstraction…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aeb/jeffrey-rosen-13180_abstraction_i-d-say-that-louis-brandeis-practiced-a_73138.jpg)
![“Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f3/jeffrey-rosen-13180_anniversary_louis-brandeis-really-inspired-me-to-wri_110490.jpg)
![“He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da1/jeffrey-rosen-13180_behalf_he-s-louis-brandais-so-suspicious-of-big_113363.jpg)
![“They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/950/jeffrey-rosen-13180_backgrounds_they-said-ok-nine-louis-brandeis-s-is-to_526142.jpg)
![“Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/494/jeffrey-rosen-13180_great-music_basically-louise-brandeis-was-a-jefferso_603281.jpg)
![“[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0fd/jeffrey-rosen-13180_20th-century_louis-brandeis-at-the-age-of-57-decided_726968.jpg)
![“For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8db/jeffrey-rosen-13180_age_for-louis-brandeis-you-know-ethnicity-an_755034.jpg)
![“I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.” quote by Dahlia Lithwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d6/dahlia-lithwick-17366_book_i-m-hardly-the-first-person-to-say-that_738506.jpg)
![“What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/600/jeffrey-rosen-13180_convincing_what-is-so-inspiring-about-louis-brandei_927824.jpg)