Quotes by Byron R. White

“Short of homicide, [rape] is the ultimate violation of self.”

“Rape is the easiest charge to make and the most difficult to prove”

“By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever”

“Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.”

“Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latters privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.”

“I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.”

“A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.”

“Sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity provide educational experience which cannot be duplicated in the classroom. They are an uncompromising laboratory in which we must htink and act quickly and efficiently under pressure and then force us to meet our own inadequacies face to face - and do something about them - as nothing else does. In any athletic activity we are thrown upon our own resources to succeed or fail in the face of a strong and immediate challenge. Sports resemble life in a capsule form and the participant quickly learns that his preformance depends upon the development of strength, stammina, self-discipline and a sure and study judgement.”