Fourteenth amendment Quote by Michelle Alexander

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

— James Madison

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

— James K. Polk

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

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.

— Chinese Proverbs

The akings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

— Michael Kinsley

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

— Michael Kinsley

“Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off. Guaranteeing that every individual will be free to do…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

— Robert Bork

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution,…

— Potter Stewart

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

— Edward Kennedy