"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."

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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."

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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."

Michael Newdow, American Lawyer

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"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."

Byron Dorgan, American Politician

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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."

Roger Mudd, American Journalist

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"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."

Pat Oliphant, Australian Cartoonist

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"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."

Francis Biddle, American Lawyer

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"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law."

Sonia Sotomayor, American Judge

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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."

Angela Davis, American Activist

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"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

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"I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general."

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"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation."

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"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."

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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

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"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."

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"I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively."

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"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."

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"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people."

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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."

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