The dissent grants that petitionersO situation is unfortunate that they ‘understandably attract …

The dissent grants that petitionersO situation is ‘unfortunate’ that they ‘understandably attract this CourtOs sympathy.’ Post, at 1, 39. But ‘sympathyO is not what petitioners have a right to demand. What they have a right to demand is evenhanded enforcement of the lawNof Title VIIOs prohibition against discrimination basedon race. And that is what, until todayOs 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’

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy …

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency….Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. John Maynard Keynes

I personally don’t need some arrogant, left-leaning, holier-than-thou …

I personally don’t need some arrogant, left-leaning, holier-than-thou individual using the force of the government to dictate how I should act. If I see someone who I believe needs and deserves my help and I have the ability to provide that help, I will do so. It is all about a single word: freedom. Those such as the letter writer have no problem forcing their will upon other members of society. I, on the other hand, wish only to leave others to their own decisions and have them leave me to mine Bob Cogliano
Investor’s Business Daily, June 10, 2003