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The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

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.
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Discrimination Education Law Principle Race
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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Children Community Feeling Heart Mindset Qualification Race Separate Way
Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Citizenship One Liner Privilege Right
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
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Inspirational Motivational Work Yourself
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Alive Form Justice Law Spirit
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree
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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Character Discover Man Meaning Path Possible Sensitive
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
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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Ability Freedom Lose People Principle Right Security
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.
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Evidence Himself Law Person Presence Right Silence
Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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Army Goodness Revolution Stand War
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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Failure Nation Ourselves Time Tragedy
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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Government People Perspective Politics Progress
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Force Freedom Liberty Power World

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