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He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

This only will I say, that the most crushing of misfortune's burdens is, that as soon as a charge is fastened upon the unhappy, they are believed to have deserved their sufferings.

My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.

The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Our answer is this: a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us.

Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.

To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.

The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.