Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

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.

We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.