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"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
"We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve."
"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority."
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"With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects."
"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."
"Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich."
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