“ By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification… ”
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“ Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. ”
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“ Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ”
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“ Everyone else is just as bad. I think if you gave that same grading to corporate America, you'd see all the Fs also. ”
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“ The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories. ”
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“ The court has now carved out a new category of expression that can be excluded from the First Amendment. ”
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“ Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. ”
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“ In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories. ”
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“ Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. ”
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“ Science is the systematic classification of experience. ”
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“ The Constitution is both color blind and color conscious. To avoid conflict with the equal protection clause, a classification that denies a benefit, causes harm, or imposes a burden must not be based on race. In that sense the Constitution is color blind. ”
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“ Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion. ”
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