Constance Backhouse Quotes
I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.Constance Backhouse
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
Xavier Becerra -
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
Randall Terry -
I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
Karan Mahajan -
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Harold Bloom -
When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
Jack Kingston -
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
Cab Calloway
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
Barack Obama -
It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
Adam Cohen -
Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
G. Edward Griffin -
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong -
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
Gavin Newsom -
Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.
Pam Bondi
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My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
Ian Watson -
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
Karl Jaspers -
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
Kate Adie -
'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first 'era' film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.
Madison Davenport -
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
J. William Fulbright -
The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
Samantha Power
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Jack Kevorkian -
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
Walter Crane -
At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
Dennis Banks -
Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.
Aneel Bhusri -
I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.
Constance Backhouse