Frances Farenthold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
-- Frances Farenthold

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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

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If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.
-- Frances Farenthold

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Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Frances Farenthold famous quotes

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