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I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz
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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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Brooklyn
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Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.
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Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.
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I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
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I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
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The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
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Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do.
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My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
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