"From this day forward, I no longer shall……" — Harry A. Blackmun
"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed."
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Harry A. Blackmun
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21 Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun
Harry A. Blackmun has 21 quotes on this site.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness…
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I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either…
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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an…
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a…
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I…
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of…
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to…
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If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He…
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine,…
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,
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The death penalty experiment has failed.
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I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what…
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Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I…
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Never concede the putt that beats you.
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One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism…
— George Wald
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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
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If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate…
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If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
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Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows…
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I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The…
— Morris K. Jessup
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I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it…
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