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"Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights."
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"It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law."
"We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve."
"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."
"Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them."
"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority."
"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
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"It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress."
"Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity."
"A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution."
"Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature."
"Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag."
"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution."
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