“Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.” OughtEqualInstitutionsSacredUnionsProtectionEqual Protection Author:James McGreevey
“Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.” StatesGovernmentLawOpportunityIndividualAchieveTalentPolicyEqualCapacityDenyProtectionOfficialsAspireCitizenshipStatureState GovernmentEqual OpportunityEqual ProtectionIndividual Talent Book:My Own Words Source: My Own Words
“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
“The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.” SpecialEqualConstitutionProtectionGuaranteesBiasHavocEqual Protection Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.” StatesShowsLawProcessCommonNumbersEffortRightsCitizensEqualIncreaseVictimDenyProtectionDuesHonestlyTendenciesInvasionSavageryLynchingDue ProcessEqual ProtectionDue Process Of Law Author:H. L. Mencken
“The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."” WayShouldMatterStatesChoicesIssuesRightsGayEqualCourtProtectionSupremeDiscriminationSupreme CourtGay MarriageFederalismAnti GayAll StateEqual Protection Author:Barack Obama
“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
“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.” Has BeensTermRightsBirthCitizensEqualProtectionDistinctionNativeEntitledPreciseAdoptedEqual RightsEqual Protection Author:James K. Polk
“Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.” PeopleLawGayEqualDeserveProtectionEqual Protection Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.” DreamBigsLawOpportunityFourSharePromiseEqualFairsProtectionAccessAmerican DreamTentsEqual OpportunityFair ShareEqual Protection Author:Jesse Jackson
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” MindWould BeLawPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyPrinciplesCasesRightsBearsProtectEqualSacredMajorityEqualityCivil RightsOppressionReasonableMinoritiesPatrioticOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityEqual ProtectionPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'” ChildrenSaidLawProcessBornRightsEqualProtectionDuesWadeConstitutional RightsDue ProcessRoe V WadeEqual Protection Author:Nat Hentoff
“Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.” WellsStatesAbleChallengesReligiousRightsCitizensEqualAuthorityClaimsFundamentalsCourtProtectionArchitectureSeparationSupremeDiscriminationLimitationChampionSupreme CourtPrecedentMinnesotaSeparation Of PowersEqual Protection Author:David B. Rivkin
“There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral but produce substantial discriminatory impacts on groups of people, based on such suspect classifications as race, nationality, ethnic origin, etc. This doctrine has never been used in foreign affairs.” PeopleActionUsedChallengesRaceGroupsProduceEqualUniqueImpactAffairProtectionAriseDoctrineInstanceEtcSuspectsNationalityClassificationForeign AffairsEqual Protection Author:David B. Rivkin
“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