Evan Wolfson Quotes

The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

Evan Wolfson

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• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • True
  • Want
  • Man

• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Law
  • Doubt
  • Yourself

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• 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
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• 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
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Done
  • Want

• The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Law
  • First
  • Everything

• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • You
  • Sex
  • Discrimination

• 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
  • World
  • Father
  • Law

• The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Law
  • Need

• I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Women
  • Done
  • Together

• I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • God
  • Believe
  • Law

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Law
  • Running
  • Understand

• In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Sex
  • Leader
  • Equality

• Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Death
  • Law
  • Death Penalty

• I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

  

  Mark Takano
  • Hope
  • Equality

• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Me
  • Best
  • Thing

• She loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Wonder
  • Picture
  • Scene

• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Myself

• Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

  

  Eric Allin Cornell
  • School
  • Chess

• The 1913 law is an artifact of an era of trying to block racial equality. It's serving its mission of discrimination.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Law
  • Equality
  • Discrimination