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William J. Brennan has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different.…
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This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious…
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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and…
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The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.
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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
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There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action…
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I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the…
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The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be…
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Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.
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