Plessy Quotes

#1. I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,

William Rehnquist

#2. It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid.

Erwin Chemerinsky

#3. The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

David Souter

#4. We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

Simonides Of Ceos

#5. I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.

Penelope Douglas

#6. The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

Joseph Fischer

#7. After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

Barbara Steele

#8. I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Pamela Love