When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
EARL WARRENIn 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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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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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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