65 Quotes by Jeffrey Rosen

Privacy is not for the passive.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people’s thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

Like Jefferson, Brandeis believed that the greatest threat to our constitutional liberties was an uneducated citizenry, and that democracy could not survive both ignorant and free. And.

Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he’s teaching us – good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it’s a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful unanimous decision that Chief Justice Roberts wrote saying you can’t search a cellphone on arrest without a warrant.

The idea was there from the beginning: equality. And yet you can read every page of your pocket Constitution and you will not find, in the original Constitution, the word equal, or equality, even though equality was a main theme of the Declaration of Independence. The word equal becomes a part of the Constitution in the Fourteenth Amendment.

Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity – or he never sought the opportunity I should say – to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.

If we imagine the worst-case scenario, with Roe v. Wade overruled, there would remain many states that would not go back to the way it once was. It doesn’t matter what Congress or the state legislatures do, there will be other states that provide this facility, and women will have access to it if they can pay for it. Women who can’t pay are the only women who would be affected.

My mother’s advice was, don’t lose time on useless emotions like anger, resentment, remorse, envy. Those, she said, will just sap time; they don’t get you where you want to be.