Quotes About Dred Scott Decision

#1. All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery - Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy - were Democrats.

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

Dorothy Day

#5. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.

Jane Austen

#6. Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

Catherine Jinks

#7. If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

Caroline Kepnes

#8. Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

Sherry Turkle

#10. Small facts lead to great knowing.

Patrick Rothfuss