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.
EARL WARRENBen Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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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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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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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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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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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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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It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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