“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.” IfsThinkingNeedsGivingMindStatesLawOrderJusticeWhiteUnitedUnited StatesMinesParticularMembersFairsTasksVoteCourtAssumingCongressVariousConclusionCodeReasonableAdoptedProvisionMethodology Author:Antonin Scalia
“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.” IfsMenMadeEarthLawFatherGivenNationsWhiteRaceBloodChangedBrokenEmptyRegardSeedsHungryChosenSpotsPenaltiesWhite ManCovenantCainOrdinancesHungry ManAfrican Race Author:Brigham Young
“When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.” PeopleBigsLawHouseWhiteRightsMovementOughtCivil RightsAccomplishedWhite HouseInvitationsCivil Rights MovementBig HousesBreaking The LawAnathema Author:Mike Huckabee
“Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.” LawBlackWhitePoorDealsRichBloodDogShotsPoliceIncludingBlowIgnorantBitesPenaltiesPowerlessMajestyDeath PenaltyBarkUnderdogIlliterateLegal SystemConformistPariahsBrahmins Author:V. R. Krishna Iyer
“Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.” UseProblemTodayLawWhiteGroupsDangerousConcernTerrorAlcoholLikesReactionsAgencyAbortionDestructiveInvestigationLaw EnforcementEnforcementTacticsTobaccoFirearmsExplosivesMilitiaAnti AbortionArson Author:James Inhofe
“In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all. A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.” ShouldHumansDoeMadeCountryGovernmentLawNationsBlackWhitePoorCommonLibertyDestinyRichRightsCitizensProtectEqualLowsEqualityPursuitVarietyCitizenshipDelayEqual RightsPursuit Of HappinessRight To LifeHuman FamilyCompositesLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Author:Frederick Douglass
“Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.” ShouldMindHas BeensLawWhiteMilitaryDivineCreatingShould HavePoliceSaintDisorderDivine LoveShould Have BeenOrthodoxyNuisanceIntoxicatedMilitary Police Book:Collected stories and other writings Source: Collected stories and other writings
“I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.” IfsKnowsMenLawAsksChanceWhiteRaceBreakIndianWhite Man Author:Chief Joseph
“It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.” LawBlackWhiteFlatsUnwrittenNightclubs Author:Dick Gregory
“Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.” FirstsMightMovingLawMotherHouseForceWhiteMonthsTestsBarackWhite HouseHostileIn-lawsBidenMother In Law Author:Jay Leno