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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad."
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"My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts."
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"The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer."
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"We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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"We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart."
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"Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion."
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"The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism."
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"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it."
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"I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages."
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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
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"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."
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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
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"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
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"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"
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