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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Source: Concurring opinion in 6-3 ruling that an Alabama law authorizing voluntary prayer or meditation in public schools violated the 1st Amendment by encouraging religious practice, 4 Jun 1985.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor, (Mar 26 1930-____), US supreme court justice; She was the first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; nominated by Reagan, 1981.


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