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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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN

Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
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.
EARL WARREN

Crime Illegal Liberty Life
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
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
EARL WARREN

Discover Electric Invention Man Money Technology
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.
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Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
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
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Expression Freedom Pieces. Heart
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
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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Government People Perspective Politics Progress
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Education Equality Inheritance Separate
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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Patience Reason Strike Wait War
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth
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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Character Discover Man Meaning Path Possible Sensitive
Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Army Goodness Revolution Stand War

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