Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
EARL WARRENSeparate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They’re first in with their fees and first out when there’s trouble.
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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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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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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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I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
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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.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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