Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in "Women’s Rights in the Louisiana Matrimonial Regime," 1976
Riley, Janet Mary
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
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"WE SEEK MORE. We seek that measure of equal protection for wives that is not only just, but also essential to the legitimate ends of marriage. Legislation, after all, must not be an irritant. To the contrary it must create and serve a climate conducive to marital harmony, stronger family units, and , in the end, a stronger society."
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
<span id="docs-internal-guid-708cbf7b-dd2b-4788-8e04-06a3efc61e25"><em>Tulane Law Review</em><span> 50 (1976): 557. Box 2, Folder 12, Collection 33: Janet Mary Riley Papers</span></span>
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
1976
2017
Riley, Janet Mary
Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
Riley, Janet Mary
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
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"It brings Louisiana into the 2Oth century. But we have to understand that it wasn’t handed to us by the legislature. We fought for it every inch of the way."
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Allured, Janet. <em>Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: the long women's rights movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997</em>. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016), 260.
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
2017
1980-01
Riley, Janet Mary
Quote by Janet Mary Riley, found in her letter to Kathleen Lilly, 1962
Riley, Janet Mary
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Lilly, Kathleen
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“…the state exists to serve the individual by using its God-Given Authority to create an environment in which he is assured those freedoms necessary to work out his salvation, for instance, freedom of speech and of religion, freedom from oppression inequalities enforced by law, the freedom of fair trials, and freedom from reasonable police searches.”
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Allured, Janet. <em>Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: the long women's rights movement in Louisiana</em>, 1950-1997. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016), 79-80.
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
2017
1962-11-12
Riley, Janet Mary
Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “I Found it Very Difficult to Be Heard,” from <em>Generations: A Century of Women Speak About their Lives</em>
Riley, Janet Mary
Lombard v. Louisiana
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“Back in the early fifties, some black students staged a sit-in at the lunch counter at McCrory’s, a five-and-ten-cent store. First, they had done it at Woolworth’s. Jack Nelson, now a retired member of our faculty, had always been very, very much involved in interracial activities in the city. When they were charged with malicious mischief, they asked Jack to represent them. He phoned our dean and said, “I would like a faculty member or a senior student to help me draft a memorandum in support of my motion to quash the indictment.” I had finished the law degree and volunteered. It was very little pay. He wasn’t paid at all. Months passed, and I heard nothing about it, except what I read in the newspaper, that he had lost in the criminal district court and lost again in the Louisiana Supreme Court. I happened to run into him downtown one day, and he said, “Janet, I need you again. I’m now applying for writs to the U.S. Supreme Court in that same case. Will you help me? But there’s no money.” And I said, “Yeah, I’d be glad to.” And then I found out he had used my memorandum with very few changes before the Louisiana Supreme Court, and now was going to the U.S. Supreme Court, still using my memorandum almost as it was. Writs were granted, and he argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court and won in the landmark case of Lombard vs. Louisiana.”
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
<em>Generations : a century of women speak about their lives</em>, edited by Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
2017
1997
Riley, Janet Mary
Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “I Found it Very Difficult to Be Heard” from <em>Generations: A Century of Women Speak About their Lives</em>
Riley, Janet Mary
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“At faculty meetings, for a long time I had the feeling that I was tolerated, but my opinion was not sought...Very often I’d hear my own opinion expressed fifteen minutes later by another faculty member, as though it was a brand new idea, and adopted with enthusiasm."
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
2017
1997
Riley, Janet Mary
Quote by Janet Mary Riley in “Women Win Their Case as Legal Eagles,” Times Picayune, November 2, 1986
Riley, Janet Mary
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“Opportunities come as a result of God’s providence, and I believe a person has a duty to find out through prayer – what God wants you to do."
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
2017
1986-11-02
Riley, Janet Mary