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" In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. "

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" Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. "

Cliff Stearns

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Legal

Fact

" Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people. "

Ziggy Marley

" Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. "

" Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. "

" Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. "

" Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals. "

" Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call. "

" Taste cannot be controlled by law. "

" However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel. "

" Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. "

" The military tribunals currently underway at Guantanamo Bay create a clear legal process, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, for adjudicating the cases of these terrorists, when possible. Those efforts would be severely undercut by moving the detainees to the United States. "

" The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost. "

" 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. "

" The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. "

" Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. "

" Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. "

" I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second. "

" I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. "

" I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reality

Community

Law

" When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did. "

" Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. "

" I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. "

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Money

Lawyer

Who

" The safety of the people shall be the highest law. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Legal

Safety

Highest

" In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos. "

" The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don't, the system fails, and the laws don't matter. "

" Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. "

" In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. "

" As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one. "

Sam Waterston

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" Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. "

" We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time. "