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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

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We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

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No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

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Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: April 25th, 1906

Died: July 24th, 1997

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