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 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
-
-
The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN -
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.
EARL WARREN -
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.
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.
EARL WARREN -
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN -
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN -
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.
EARL WARREN -
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
EARL WARREN -
Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
EARL WARREN -
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN -
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN -
Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
EARL WARREN -
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.
EARL WARREN -
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
EARL WARREN -
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
EARL WARREN