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 WARRENPrior 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.
More Earl Warren Quotes
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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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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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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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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Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.
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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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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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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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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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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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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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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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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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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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Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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