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" Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. "
Paul Ricoeur
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Testimony
Historical
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" Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information. "
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" Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction. "
Lysander Spooner
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" Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. "
Edmund Burke
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" Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet. "
Michael Jordan
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" King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. "
Constance Baker Motley
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" As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth. "
Ted Cruz
Mother
Citizen
Birth
" I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. "
Felice Picano
Swear
Legal
Law
" Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. "
Kevin Mitnick
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" There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before. "
Daniel Ek
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Service
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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. "
Elena Kagan
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Senate
Process
" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "
Paul Watson
Fish
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Like
" 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
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Medical
Me
" Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles. "
Rebecca MacKinnon
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Political
People
" Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities. "
Stieg Larsson
Women
Legal
Society
" What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. "
Robert Mueller
Bring
Table
Only
" 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
Work
Easy
Green
" 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. "
Lionel Trilling
End
Process
Someone
" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "
Coretta Scott King
Gay
Legal
Marriage
" Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them. "
Shirley Chisholm
Past
Legal
Time
" Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. "
Gilbert Parker
Law
You
Win Or Lose
" In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms. "
Russell M. Nelson
Two
More
God
" The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. "
Paul Ricoeur
World
Good
Law
" Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. "
Jeremy Bentham
Legal
Only
Law
" Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. "
Thomas Carper
Broken
Band
Action
" Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know! "
Belinda Johnson
Creative
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People
" Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. "
Wendy Kopp
Talent
Short
Time
" Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution. "
Rosa Luxemburg
Place
Last
Work
" 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
Memory
Fire
Great
" It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. "
Paul Ricoeur
Against
Always
Possible
" Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. "
Rahm Emanuel
Best
Think
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