“Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.”

—  Learned Hand

"A Pledge of Allegiance" - speech for "I Am an American Day" in Central Park, New York, New York. (20 May 1945).
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American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872–1961

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