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.
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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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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