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"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."

"Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country."

"I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association."

"I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers."

"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."
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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

"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."

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

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
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