#pro

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#disappeared #emergency #existing #far #gradually

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. ↗

— Byron White

#death #death penalty #defendant #deprive #entitled

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol. ↗

— Allen West

#already #books #border #border patrol #confront

The problem is we need much more moral content. ↗

— Cornel West

#moral #more #much #need #problem

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system. ↗

— Meg White

#i #i think #lot #problems #system

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. ↗

— Cornel West

#obsessed #pleasure #power #property #selling

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. ↗