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 WARRENToday, 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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