Antonin Scalia Quotes

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

We should have a national policy whereby in law and its administration no distinctions on the basis of sex should be made except such as are reasonably justified by differences in physical structure, biological or social function.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

I couldn't reconcile being a progressive feminist with being the mother of a male: advocating for policies that discriminated against him and targeted him simply for his sex, advocating an ideology that was a direct contradiction to my role as a mother to protect and nurture my child.

We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.

Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.