"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge."

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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."

Wayne Coyne, American Musician

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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."

Bill Scott, American Actor

Legal, Court, Job, Justice

"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."

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American Politician

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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."

Bill Scott, American Actor

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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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."

Romeo LeBlanc, Canadian Politician

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"Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion."

Cliff Stearns, American Politician

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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."

Warren Farrell, American Writer

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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."

Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician

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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."

Tony Campolo, American Clergyman

Legal, Life, Church, Rights

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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."

Education, Now, University

"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."

Policy, Day, End, Meeting

"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."

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"There is a thin line between politics and theatricals."

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"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."

Education, Experience, Work, People

"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."

Time, Church, President

"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."

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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

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"The First Amendment means everything to me."

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"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."

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