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“The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.”

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Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”

“I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!”

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Author:Alex Trebek

“Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.”

“Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.”

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Author:John Adams

“I vote and I do jury duty.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'”

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Author:Regina Brett

“Raise your hand if you had no idea you’d see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.” Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed.”

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Book:Practice Makes Perfect

Source: Practice Makes Perfect

“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”

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Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot