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.
EARL WARRENSeparate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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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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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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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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Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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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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