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" Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. "
Thucydides
Like
Legal
Wrong
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" Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. "
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" Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. "
Mike Pence
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" No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend. "
Susan B. Anthony
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Spiritual
Woman
" Punishment is justice for the unjust. "
Saint Augustine
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" I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court. "
Michael T. Flynn
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People
" I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back. "
Charles Barkley
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" 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. "
Eric Schneiderman
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Fire
Great
" As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country. "
Opal Tometi
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" One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now. "
Anita Hill
Legal
Think
I Am
" To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. "
Felix Frankfurter
Equal
Facts
Some
" Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. "
Abbie Hoffman
Legal
Medical
Political
" 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. "
Kendrick Meek
Brave
Hope
Legal
" Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity. "
Chelsea Manning
Identity
Medical
Me
" 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. "
Elena Kagan
Law
School
Wisdom
" I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, and the only justice to lead the N.F.L. in rushing. He was one of the smartest and most courageous men I've ever known. "
Neil Gorsuch
Men
Last
Legal
" Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. "
Thucydides
Insignificant
Anger
Spring
" The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice. "
Lee Kuan Yew
System
Test
Greatness
" I believe all people, regardless of sexual orientation, should be guaranteed the full rights to the legal benefits and responsibilities of marriage under the Constitution. "
Tim Kaine
Constitution
People
Marriage
" Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application. "
Michael Ignatieff
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" If I was applying for a legal position, I would highlight my experience working for the San Francisco-L.A. DA's office, and I would mention some of the high-profile cases I did, but if I was looking for another television job, I would gloss over that, and I'd mention the highlight reel of what I did in television. "
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Looking
Experience
Job
" If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. "
Julius Caesar
You
Power
Seize
" We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court. "
Lindsey Graham
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Create
People
" The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. "
Henry Miller
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System
Over
" Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country. "
Opal Tometi
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People
Family
" From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition. "
John Harington
Physician
Hide
Your
" I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married. "
Trisha Yearwood
Live
Looking
Looking Forward
" In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. "
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" We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid. "
Gary Johnson
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Easy
Green
" There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. "
Travis Kalanick