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We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas. Thurgood Marshall
You Thought Example Feeling Action Negroes Jobs Give Something More Area Could Take Had New For Example Because Were Oppressed South Metropolitan Chicago Get York Same Any New York Being Little Here
It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home. Thurgood Marshall
Home Ourselves Atmosphere About Something Had Taken Taken For Granted Make Said Just Much Granted
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. Warren E. Burger
People Licensing About More Casual Allow Qualifying Advocate Courtroom Than Act
The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. Warren E. Burger
Judge Trial Case Advocate Stool Two
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. William Blackstone
Good Rights Protection Nothing Every More Individual Private Than Essentially Interested Public Public Good
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband. William Blackstone
Husband And Wife Wife Husband
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law. William H. Pryor
Faith Judge Law Lawyer Religious Morality Properly Tension Fidelity Informs
I will never forget January 22, 1973, the day seven members of our highest court ripped up the Constitution. William H. Pryor
Day Constitution Will Our Seven Members Ripped Never Highest Never Forget Court Up Forget January
I have a record as attorney general that is separate from my personal beliefs. William H. Pryor
Record General Attorney Attorney General Personal Separate Beliefs
I believe that abortion is the taking of human life. William H. Pryor
Life Abortion Believe Taking Human Human Life
I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter. William H. Pryor
Justice Several Occasions Decisions
Look at my record. I have done my duty. William H. Pryor
Duty Record Look Done
The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective. William H. Pryor
Perspective Challenge Will Experiment Christian Restoring American Next Millennium Preserve
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Class Respect Decision Congress Materials His Provides Legitimate Proceed Basis
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Confession Embodied Clause Mentally Involuntary Fairness Due Person Process Use Notion Ill Fundamental
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Death Pain Enormity Finality Severe Punishment More Only Purpose Unusual Unusually Effectively Than Less Serve
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Time History Words Interpretation Intervening Our Framing Our Time Must Look Ultimate Question Text The History Of Mean
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Privacy Free Single Married Intrusion Individual Unwarranted Anything Means Right
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Constitution Way Only Read American Current Justices
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. William J. Brennan, Jr.
Freedom Man Rights Dignity Will Never Quest End
The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal. William K. Sessions
Justice Right Person Punished Recommendations Fair Make Sure Goal Person Essential Want Process Right
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions. William O. Douglas
Life Loyalty Political Living Harmony Way Projects Purpose Noble Involved Prior Faiths Causes Commercial Any Decisions Social Bilateral Association
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. William O. Douglas
Wisdom Sit Weigh Legislation
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas
Today Politics Free Free Speech Yesterday Performance Like Audience Cattle Diseased Same May Impure Even Applaud Butter Speech
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. William O. Douglas
History Judge Back Nixon Out Tell Pick Wants Should
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. William O. Douglas
Good Great Struggle Old Tyranny Men Free Civilized Friend Amendment Decent Old Friend Landmarks Good Friend
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