Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Gail Simmons
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles
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Lance Armstrong
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
Gavin Newsom
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J. C. Watts
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Caitlin Doughty
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights.
Hannah Arendt
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
Henry James Sumner Maine
The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.
Magic Johnson
Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?
James Nesbitt
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
Martin Luther King, Jr.