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| Earl Warren
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. Citizenship is man's basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen. Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for. I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn. If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist. In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along – not the Congress nor the courts. The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. Without law, civilization could not exist, for there are always people who in the conflict of human interest, ignore their responsibility to their fellow man. You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. |
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