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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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If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a…
— Unknown Author
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly…
— Karl Marx
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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
— William J. Brennan
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument…
— Gary Bauer
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The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for…
— Gary L. Francione
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than…
— Hu Shih
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Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their…
— Pope Francis
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I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to…
— D L Hughley
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So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
— Gunnar Myrdal
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Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or…
— Gerhard Richter
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I…
— John Major
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging…
— Camille Paglia
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