Jury Quote by Jesse Jackson Download Open image “When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.” — Jesse Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jury Right to vote Vote White
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran Copy Share Image
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Black women voted against Roy Moore not because they necessarily wanted the other guy; they voted against Roy Moore because they knew that would… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“For almost a century after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Court followed this narrow reading of the Equal Protection Clause and refused to use it… — Erwin Chemerinsky Copy Share Image
Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
If my mind can conceive it ,and my heart can believe it,i known I can achieve it. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury),… — David Duke Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image