Citizens Quote by John Marshall Download Open image “The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” — John Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizens Class Constitution Tolerate
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall Harlan Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Chief Justice Roberts has expressly said that the Constitution and the government should be colorblind, he sees no difference between government action that discriminates… — Erwin Chemerinsky Copy Share Image
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or… — Archibald Cox Copy Share
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image