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Legal Quotes
"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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"Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion."
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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."
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"To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it."
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"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."
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"The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system."
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"When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public."
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"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
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"I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide."
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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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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."
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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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