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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
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Discover Electric Invention Man Money Technology
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth
A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
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Authority Easy Government Live Responsibility
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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Equality Opportunity Right
When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Explosion Freedom Right
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.
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Patience Reason Strike Wait War
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
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Ideal Justice Legal Success System Universal
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.
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Economic People Representation Vote
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
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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Children Doubt Education Expectation Life Opportunity Reason Success
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Communication Dangerous Electric Greatness Privacy
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
Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Citizenship One Liner Privilege Right
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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Choice Decision Diversity Fragments Honor Result Society Strength Tension
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree

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