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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."


"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."


"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."


"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."


"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
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