We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
EARL WARRENRacial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.
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Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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