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"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
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"We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court."
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"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."
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"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
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