Equal Protection Quotes

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.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.