Quotes by William J. Brennan, Jr. - Page 1

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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Jobs
Attitude
Only
Attitudes
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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
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Aside
Changes
Social Changes
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The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
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Dignity
Quest
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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
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Conflict
Fanatics
Religious
Cruelest
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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
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Current
Justices
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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Deals
Obscene
Sex
Appealing
Manner
Material
Synonymous
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We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
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Freedom
Cherished
Desecration
Emblem
Flag
Punishing
Represents
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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.
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Force
Human Life
Mankind
Motive
Mysterious
Sex
Absorb
Ages
Subject
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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.
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Confession
Fairness
Ill
Involuntary
Notion
Mentally
Clause
Due
Embodied
Fundamental
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No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
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Destined
Female
Family Home World
Male
Rearing
Solely
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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.
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Intrusion
Married
Privacy
Unwarranted
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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.
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Congress
Decision
Materials
Basis
Legitimate
Proceed
Provides
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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
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Framing
Interpretation
Our Time
Ultimate
Time History Look
Text
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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.
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Congress
Disability
Flow
Accumulate
Acknowledged
Actual
Fears
Limitations
Myths
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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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Finality
Pain
Punishment
Purpose
Severe
Unusual
Effectively
Enormity
Serve
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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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Achieve
Inherent
Pointless
Punishment
Severe
Adequately
Clause
Excessive
Principle
Purposes
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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.
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Government
Bill Of Rights
Framers
Rights
Did
Bill
Create
Designed
Liberties
Preexisting
Prohibit
Rather
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