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Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue. Joaquim Barbosa

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In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris. Joaquim Barbosa

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We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about. John Atkinson

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The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it. John Marshall

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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. John Marshall

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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. John Marshall

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts. John Marshall

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Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination. John Marshall

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For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. John Paul Stevens

When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be. John Paul Stevens

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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written. John Paul Stevens

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Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation. John Paul Stevens

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They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade. John Paul Stevens

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To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment? John Paul Stevens

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I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views. John Paul Stevens

I'm a person who plays Ping-Pong once in a while. John Paul Stevens

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I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while. John Paul Stevens

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Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially. John Paul Stevens

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When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court's unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment's protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia. John Paul Stevens

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