How Rights Went Wrong Quotes

“The curves of callousness and stupidity intersect at their respective maxima.”
― Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

“Strong rights protection is far from harmless. The proliferation of strong rights can frustrate the democratic will and erode the solidarity of communities. Judicial dominion over constitutional rights can absolve the rest of us of our responsibility to take rights seriously, leading our moral institutions to atrophy and eventually to decay. Rights can breed resentment of those who win the Constitutions favor at the expense of others”
― Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart – A Renowned Legal Scholar's Paradigm-Shifting Analysis of Race, Law, and Justice