It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards … - Felix Frankfurter

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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.

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