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“Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.”

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William J. Brennan was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, known for his contributions to constitutional interpretation. He retired in 1972 and is the second longest-serving Justice in U.S. history. more

“One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.”

“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

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Author:Abe Fortas

“Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.”

Stories Essentials Responsible Instruments Journalism Injury Deliberate Wanton

Author:Abe Fortas

“For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.”

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Author:Abe Fortas

“Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.”

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Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.”

Men May Jobs Judging Lonely Islands Being Lonely

Author:Abe Fortas

“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

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