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“Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order”

Way Order Justice Decision Exercise Shapes Consequence Flow Direct Guarantees Interpretation Defining Crow Judicial Contemplative Jim Crow Incompatibility

Author:William J. Brennan

“If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.”

Ifs Individual Justice Rights Generations Security Succeed Concepts Capitalism Guarantees Enterprise National Security Sovereignty Guarantees That Free Enterprise Individual Rights

Author:George Nethercutt

“Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.”

Justice Guarantees Sentiments

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.”

Giving Justice Guarantees Manhood Expediency

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.”

“Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.”

Justice Guarantees Diminish Retribution

Book:You'll Get Through This (Miniature Edition): Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

Source: You'll Get Through This (Miniature Edition): Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].”

“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.”

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom