Roger Brooke Taney famous quotes

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The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.
-- Roger Brooke Taney

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They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
-- Roger Brooke Taney

#Respect #Men #Rights
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
-- Roger Brooke Taney

#Law #Looks #Slavery
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
-- Roger Brooke Taney

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Roger Brooke Taney famous quotes

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