#violation

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#always #been #bondage #constitution #endeavor

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#becomes #blatant #cloak #cowardice #dares

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#privacy #violations

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. ↗

— Earl Warren

#conversing #dead #forced #his #law

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#consider #correction #delinquent #divine #duty

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. ↗

— Ron Paul

#benefit #else #even #force #group

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#before #crimes #four #incidents #law

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? ↗

— Adam Schiff

#alumni #awarding #children #constitution #diverse

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#civil rights #concerned #generation #i #like