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.
EARL WARRENThe censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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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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