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" When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "

Erica Jong

Desk

Pen

Legal

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" When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. That's wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal. "

" The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. "

" We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. "

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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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Robert Green Ingersoll

Man

Inferior

I Am

" Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. "

" Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain. "

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" What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something. "

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Something

" 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. "