Quotes About Dred Scott

#1. For black Americans, we know that gun control ... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

Niger Innis

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Roger B. Taney

#6. Why do men feel threatened by women?

Margaret Atwood

#7. Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.

Elizabeth Bear

#8. The cops drive by to do some more good deeds
A young black male spits a sunflower seed
in the air.

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#9. A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man

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#10. Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Robert Schumann

#11. The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

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#12. How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plan.

Milton Friedman

#13. Love is a word we use for the desire to fornicate so that we seem more refined than farm animals." ~Lucian Balfour

Suzanne Enoch

#14. To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#15. It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

Andy Samberg

#16. To the game I'm true like the sun first rose
I'm real like my man Michael Jackson's first nose

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#17. People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

Gil Fronsdal

#18. If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.

Robert W. Hemphill