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Kenzaburo Oe

"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

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Donna Grant

"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."

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Donna Grant

"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."

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Donna Grant

"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."

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Donna Grant

"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."

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Donna Grant

"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."

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Donna Grant

"Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution."

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Donna Grant

"The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence."

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Donna Grant

"I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times."

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Donna Grant

"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."

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Kenzaburo Oe
"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."

Peace

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Kenzaburo Oe
"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

Constitution

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Kenzaburo Oe
"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Reading

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Kenzaburo Oe
"Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries."

History

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Kenzaburo Oe
"In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad."

War

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Kenzaburo Oe
"My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity."

Observation

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War."

Peace

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Kenzaburo Oe
"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century."

Life

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia."

Nation

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Kenzaburo Oe
"However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world."

Society

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