“The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.” FirstsStatesGovernmentLawPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRightsEqualSpeechConstitutionProtectionAgencyAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechAgain And AgainViolationFirst AmendmentAssemblyState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentEqual ProtectionAlbanyFreedom Of AssemblyFourteenth Amendment Author:Howard Zinn
“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?” GivingShouldYearsLongHas BeensHouseWhiteRightsEqualProjectsShould HaveConstitutionDifficultyDisappointmentProtectionWhite HouseAmendmentsLong AgoWomens RightsControversyEqual RightsShould Have BeenEqual Rights Amendment Author:Rosalynn Carter
“The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.” StatesUseShowsPoliticalFeminismEqualWeaponsDemocraticMeetingsNuclearCandidatesAmendmentsNuclear WeaponsStoppingAmerican PoliticsPledgeFidelityHerdsCattleAntonioHartCaucusSan Antonio Author:Daniel Seligman
“During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.” MenWayBodyWomenNumbersCasesStreetsNeededEqualMen And WomenVoteAmendmentsRepresentativesWomens RightsUnitsBe A ManMen WomenJuryRevoltConstitutional AmendmentsSuffragettes Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!” FirstsBelieveHas BeensChristianLawReligiousEqualConstitutionDenyProtectionBelieve In GodAmendmentsFirst AmendmentFreedom Of ReligionEqual Protection Author:Jack Kemp
“The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.” PeopleStatesFatherPoliticsJusticeUnitedHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyGenerationsPolicyEqualEthicsConstitutionCourtIdeologyAssumptionVotingAmendmentsEqual RightsPartisanship14th Amendment Author:Ted Cruz
“I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.” PeopleIfsMeanRightsFeminismEqualErasAmendmentsEqual RightsBrasEqual Rights Amendment Author:Joan Hackett
“We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.” LongFightingRightsEqualDuesAmendmentsEqual RightsEqual Rights Amendment Author:Bernie Sanders
“Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.” FirstsChildrenSchoolParentReligiousGroupsOughtProtectEqualSpeechNewsAppreciateClubsWelcomeTreatmentDisabilityAmendmentsGood NewsFirst AmendmentElementary SchoolChildren LoveEqual Treatment Author:Mathew Staver
“Almost 100 years after women secured the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, we still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. My question for the GOP candidates: Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment?” YearsStillsSupportRightsEqualVoteConstitutionCandidatesAmendmentsEqual RightsSecuredRight To VoteGopEqual Rights Amendment Author:Jane Fonda
“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.” WayYearsStatesLawUnitedUnited StatesEqualConstitutionStrongerDuesAgentsAmendmentsSmarterVigilance Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Since the women are the ones who bear the babies and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.” IfsLawCan DoLosesSupportRightsBabyBearsHusbandEqualFinancialObligationCustomsAmendmentsSoleEqual RightsEqual Rights Amendment Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.” StillsStoriesPayRightsWrittenEqualBlindActivismMilesMagazinesThings To DoBeastDaringAmendmentsMisogynyBellyEqual RightsInner LifeCool ThingsEqual PayEqual Rights Amendment Author:Marisa Tomei
“History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.” MayStatesGovernmentIndividualProcessRightsEqualProtectionDuesOccasionsAmendmentsFederal GovernmentBehalfDue ProcessRare OccasionEqual Protection14th Amendment Author:Michael K. Simpson
“When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.” EqualProtectionSenateAmendmentsIntegrationGalleryClausesEqual Protection14th Amendment Author:Arlen Specter
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?” IfsRealHandsLastsDifferencesObjectsArmsEqualGunManagementSafetyCongressPossessionDefenseAmendmentsTrustedGun ControlNotableFreedom And LibertyDegradationSecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyFirearmsHumiliatingProprietyRight To Bear ArmsMilitiaBearing ArmsGun RightsRights And FreedomsFounding Fathers GunHandguns2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentAmerican PatriotAmendment 1Gun SafetyAmendment 19Patriotic GunGuns In AmericaHandgun Ban Author:Patrick Henry