“ Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ”
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“ Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ”
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“ Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime. ”
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“ There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ”
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“ Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. ”
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