Controversies Over Legal Prohibition
Throughout the process legislation banning religious head-scarves in France has been met with widely varied reactions.
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“It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when they have understood that his fate was left to the legal tribunals of the country to be decided. Free men have no faith that justice will be awarded in such a case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)