Comments on: Penn Law reparations conference https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/penn-law-reparations-conference/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 17 Feb 2018 06:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo S. Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/penn-law-reparations-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-348011 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 06:21:08 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68649#comment-348011 I sometimes quote Osawatomie Brown on the subject of slavery reparations:
“I John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land shall never be purged away but with blood!”
Arguably the crimes were purged away in 1861-1865, though new, somewhat lesser crimes were perpetrated in the Jim Crow era.

Though it has nothing to do with Walter’s original post, I sometimes like to quote the epitaph that Barry Goldwater wrote for John Brown 105 years later: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

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