Famous quotes containing the word protected:
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotectedthose, precisely, who need the lawss protection most!and listens to their testimony.”
—James Baldwin (19241987)
“Wasnt marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasnt it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?”
—Edna Ferber (18871968)
“When a girls under 21, shes protected by law. When shes over 65, shes protected by nature. Anywhere in betweenshes fair game.”
—Stanley Shapiro (19251990)