Constitution Defines Marriage

Famous quotes containing the words constitution, defines and/or marriage:

    “Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
    —Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.”
    —Ignatius Of Loyola (1491–1556)

    “Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.””
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)