Rights.com Quotation of the Day, 1 July 2009

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Jul 1, 2009, 7:03:07 AM7/1/09
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The dissent grants that petitioners' situation is 'unfortunate' that
they 'understandably attract this Court's sympathy.' Post, at 1, 39.
But 'sympathy" is not what petitioners have a right to demand. What
they have a right to demand is evenhanded enforcement of the law-of
Title VII's prohibition against discrimination based
on race. And that is what, until today's decision, has been denied them.

Samuel Alito
In the firefighters case decided in the U.S. Supreme Court June 29, 2009,
Justice Alito addresses 'sympathy'
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