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.
EARL WARREN
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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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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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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Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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