Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
EARL WARRENWe 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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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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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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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 civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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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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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 censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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