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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.
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Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…
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We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
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We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
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The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of…
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Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and…
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The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation…
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