#amendment

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. ↗

— Byron White

#amendment #protects #right #speak #spend

These kids spend a majority of their time in school, and if they’re not having a positive experience, they can become depressed. In some cases, they lash out, grabbing whatever weapon is available to them. It can be an assault rifle, a knife, a Molotov cocktail, poison, Indian burns or MMA. But if you take one weapon away, these kids are just going to grab the next thing available to them. Maybe they will use a gun with a smaller clip, limiting the amount of lives they can take. Or maybe they’ll get more creative, and think of something far more terrible. So taking a weapon away won’t really solve anything, and this is my point here. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#gun-control #second-amendment #teen-violence #experience

Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns -- or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#gun-control #gun-laws #gun-owners #gun-violence #guns

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #conditions #confession #contrition #good

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#ever #fourteenth #medicine #more #patent

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#civilized #decent #free #friend #good

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#amending #amendment #been #constitution #fact

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#body #communities #constitutional #constitutional amendment #debate

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken. ↗

— Betty Ford

#believe #cabinet #citizens #equal #equal rights

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia. ↗

— Connie Willis

#amendment #ban #colorado #did #i