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 WARRENOur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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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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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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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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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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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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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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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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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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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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