“A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.”

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential.”

Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

I cannot accept this invitation for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas.This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, is fundamental to our free society.

I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.