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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

"Justice is blind, but judges have eyes."
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"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."

"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."

"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."

"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."

"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."

"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."

"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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