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 WARRENIf it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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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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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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 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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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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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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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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