In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARRENCitizenship is the right to have rights.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.
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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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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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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 always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
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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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