"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

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“Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 10, 2012
“Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.”

Source : Patricia Hill Collins (2004). “Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism”, p.178, Routledge
“Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.”
“If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.”
“We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.”
“We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.”

Source : Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.33, University of Illinois Press
“Revolutions never go backward.”

Source : At Rochester on the Irrepressible Conflict, October 1858
“Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!”

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