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

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

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

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

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

Our attempts to banish this importunate duty will only make it return upon us again and again, and every time in a shape more unpleasant than the former.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!