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When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
Lawyer
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
Intolerance
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Terrible
Anyone
Everyone
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