Stephanie Tubbs Jones Quotes
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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One with the law is a majority.
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Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
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George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
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I'm against the president's health care law because I don't agree that it's going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
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I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
