Earl Warren
Earl Warren
Earl Warrenwas an American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of Californiaand later the 14th Chief Justice of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth19 March 1891
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
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Citizenship is the right to have rights.
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Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.
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When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.
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could be on the court and not change his views substantially over a period of years ... for change you must if you are to do your duty on the Supreme Court.
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the Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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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.
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Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.