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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

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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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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to… — Robert Bolt
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. — Robert Capa
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh
I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was… — Thomas S. Monson
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato
If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for.… — Unknown Author
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. — William J. Brennan
There is a still place, a gap between the worlds, spoken by the tribal knowings of thousands of years. In it are… — Linda Hogan
I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and… — Mildred Fay Jefferson
I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never… — Kamisese Mara
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers'… — Theodor Herzl
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot… — Albert Einstein

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