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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 treatment of them…

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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…
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
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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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our… — William J. Brennan
Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response… — Colin McGinn
Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves. — Tal Ben-Shahar
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this… — Barack Obama
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to… — Margaret Mead
We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals. — Andy Rooney
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy… — Terry Pratchett
No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at… — Dean Koontz
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay

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