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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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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
— William J. Brennan
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians…
— Maya Angelou
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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
— John Donne
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Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity..
— Ray Romano
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Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and…
— Georges Bataille
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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of…
— Mark Twain
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]…
— Desmond Tutu
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity .…
— Desmond Tutu
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Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind,…
— Theodore Schroeder
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
— Anais Nin
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The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of…
— Catherine Breillat
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