"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."

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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Legal, Winning, Defense, Fight

"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."

Martin Bashir, British Journalist

Legal, Family, Advice, Agreement

"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."

Orson Pratt, American Theologian

Legal, God, Authority

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Legal, Machine

"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."

Abbie Hoffman, American Activist

Legal, Medical, Abuse

"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Legal, Age, Mother, Father

"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."

George Sutherland, English Judge

Legal, Law, Right, Taxes

"Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."

Bobby Rush, American Politician

Legal, Discrimination, May, Obligation

"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."

Warren E. Burger, American Judge

Legal, Advertising, Advice, First

"Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery."

George Segal, American Actor

Legal, Animals, Day, Slavery

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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"

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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."

"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."

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

"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."

"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."

"Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."

"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."

"Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery."

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."