#law

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american #american dream #basic #big #dream

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#else #exhibit #law #lifestyle #protects

The laws are stacked for the wealthy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#stacked #wealthy

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#always #children #claim #gave #had

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#lawyers #liberty #many #peace #policemen

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#i think #outlaw #poets #think #visionaries

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#desert #enters #extend #i #lawrence

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#execution #first #human #i #law