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virtue or truth but on his own side." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an
opinion that you do not entertain." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through
Congress today? It wouldn"t even get out of committee." | |
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F. Lee Bailey
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| "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." | |
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U.S. Constitution
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| "I don"t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory
on the four horsemen of calumny ? fear, ignorance, bigotry, and
smear." | |
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Margaret Chase Smith
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| "Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give
no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It
would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every
clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority.... it is
the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people." | |
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Frank I. Cobb
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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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Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
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| "The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated
in 463 words. Lincoln?s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent
federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911
words." | |
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Unknown
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| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad,
wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little
corner of the earth." | |
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Mark Twain
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