Jamie’s Reviews > Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases > Status Update

"I believe in questions--and, like Paul, growth. The possibility of restructuring one's frame of mind, a sunny sliver of hope in a misguided world. Imagine being a spiritual leader who instructs only defense, and never creation." -- I am going to buy this book just for this essay!

"As do most self-righteous white men who have only ever been granted authority. Bob Jones has absolutely no handle on the concept of subjectivity."

"Freedom is a dangerously ambitious slogan to apply to a nation, and a hypocritical ideal to apply to a religion."

"The languages of words and bodies and actions and looking can be the dearest gift--a pathway to empathy and love." -Morgan Parker
This is hands down my favorite essay in this collection.

"Anyone can use the Bible to prove anything. Much like a poem, its interpretation may be subjective. Its authors are consistently debated, and either way, long gone, so the text is fair game. Words don't mean the same thing for one person as they do another." -Morgan Parker

RBG and Weisenfeld stories making me cry while reading.

“One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric” - Justice John Marshall Harlan II

"Read the Constitution, and see how many times it mentions law and obeying the law. The one thing the Constitution talks about, which the Negro do not have, and when we get that we will have no more problem with the law, is justice. Until you give me justice, you can't talk to me about disobeying the law. Once you have proper justice, the law takes care of itself." - Dick Gregory

"Perhaps the mainstream press lost interest in Dick Gregory because he continued to show up in places where the need was as persistent as he was--in black communities where so many of the promises of the civil rights, enshrined in law, have yet to be honored." -Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

"they might be able to learn that laws can and must change to reflect the indelible realities of human life and love." - Aleksandr Hemon