Quote by Robert Bork
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was e

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. – Robert Bork

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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. – Robert Bork

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Religion
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. – Robert Bork

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Change
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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Nature
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. – Arthur Ashe

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Equality

Women have a lot to say about how to advance womens rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. – Charlotte Bunch

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Equality

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. – Adam Clayton

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Equality

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. – Barry Goldwater

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Equality

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran

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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. – Alexander John Ellis

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finance

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Broken Hearts

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. – Charlie Chaplin

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