“I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.”
The law is supposed to be the framework for a fair society, though it does not always live up to that promise. These quotes explore justice, rights, the legal system, and the ongoing tension between the letter of the law and its spirit.
“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.”
“I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.”
“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.”
“I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
“People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”
“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”
“I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.”
“I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.”
“I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.”
“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”
“Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.”
“The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.”
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.”
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”