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Earl Warren

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
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World
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
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Deep Justice Law Obey Police
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth
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
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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Beginning Believe Book Country Goodness History Ourselves Reading Spirit
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
Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
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Administration Excellence Fair Inspirational Justice Maintain Service Vision
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
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
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Education Equality Inheritance Separate
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
Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Citizenship One Liner Privilege Right
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right

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