Fourteenth Amendment Quotes:

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

- Robert Bork

source: Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

topic: Law, Purpose, Separation, 14th Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

- Cass Sunstein

topic: Race, Matter, Segregation, Fourteenth Amendment

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

- William O. Douglas

topic: Medicine, Patents, Use, Fourteenth Amendment

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

- Frank Murphy

topic: Religious, Believe, Practice, Religious Love, Fourteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: War, Labor Force, Rights, Compact, Personal Rights

Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.

- Mike Huckabee

source: "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

topic: Men, Different, Enabling, Equality Of Man, Fourteenth Amendment

A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to do something even more bold. I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

- Mike Huckabee

source: Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

topic: Mother, Baby, Thinking, Game Changers, Planned Parenthood

The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.

- Howard Zinn

source: "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

topic: Agency, Rights, Government, Albany, Equal Protection

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.

- C. Wright Mills

topic: Order, Decision, Political, Economic Order, Economic Power

The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.

- William O. Douglas

topic: Mean, Order, Law, Fourteenth Amendment

There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?

- Frances Farenthold

topic: Rights, Democracy, Speech, Equal Rights Amendment, Constitutional Amendments

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.

- Eustace Mullins

topic: Military, War, Years, Martial Law, Fourteenth Amendment