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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."

"I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people."

"As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture."

"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."

"The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system."
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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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