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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
Source: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution -
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Source: Keep the Faith, Baby! -
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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