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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.

Earl Warren

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARREN

Economic People Representation Vote
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.
EARL WARREN

Commitment Heart Life Man Woman Young
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.
EARL WARREN

Liberty Name Nation Ourselves Protection Worth
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
EARL WARREN

Government People Perspective Politics Progress
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
EARL WARREN

Evidence Himself Law Person Presence Right Silence
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN

Force Freedom Liberty Power World
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
EARL WARREN

Failure Nation Ourselves Time Tragedy
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
EARL WARREN

Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
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.
EARL WARREN

Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
EARL WARREN

People Representation Tree
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
EARL WARREN

Completion Joy Quiet World
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.
EARL WARREN

Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN

Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
EARL WARREN

Communication Dangerous Electric Greatness Privacy
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN

Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
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.
EARL WARREN

Children Doubt Education Expectation Life Opportunity Reason Success

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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