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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Earl Warren

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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Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
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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Equality Opportunity Right
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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Crime Illegal Liberty Life
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World
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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Children Doubt Education Expectation Life Opportunity Reason Success
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Education Equality Inheritance Separate
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree
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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Absence Loss Ourselves Sick Society Voice
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Inspirational Motivational Work Yourself
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Communication Dangerous Electric Greatness Privacy
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
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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Discrimination Education Law Principle Race

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