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I am a peace supporting Jew.

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
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Jew
Peace

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Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
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We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
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When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
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Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
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There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.
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Ideas don't desert you ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.
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Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
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I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
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I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
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African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.
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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
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I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.
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The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
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The law is agnostic about truth.
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I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
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What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?
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This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.
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I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
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I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
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