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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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. – Robert Bork

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Society
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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. – Robert Bork

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Society
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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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We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. – Tarja Halonen

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Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable… and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, youre never going to defeat this pandemic. – Stephen Lewis

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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag

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People are pretty much alike. Its only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. – Linda Ellerbee

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