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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 Warren

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
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Education Equality Inheritance Separate
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
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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Crime Illegal Liberty Life
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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Completion Joy Quiet World
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
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
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Liberty Name Nation Ourselves Protection Worth
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
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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People Representation Tree
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
Don’t complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.
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Complain Growth Old People Privilege
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
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
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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Action Hell Life Myself Worth
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.
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Heart Learning Mistake Worry
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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