Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel
Norman Siegelwas the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union. Siegel served as director from 1985 until 2000...
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More than 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education said very simply that separate is inherently unequal,
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Any reasonable person would have known he was not there on behalf of the city and was there as an individual.
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They didn't know what they were dealing with.
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Unfortunately, he's a child who felt rejected from the very beginning. I think it's a double rejection for him.
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We should be praising these grandmothers, not prosecuting them.
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We're extremely pleased. The court system worked here.
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When Howard Beach occurred -- and it was white on black -- everyone was upset. This is similar. Somehow because this was black on white, people think it is different. No, it isn't.