"Morris Seligman Dees, Jr." is the co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a former market engineer for book publishing. Along with his law partner, Joseph J. Levin Jr., Dees founded the SPLC in 1971, the start of a legal career dedicated to suing organizations in discrimination cases.

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The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

When we got into this case, ranchers all along the border were allowing these types to come on their property, ... Now, they're very leery of it, especially when they see someone loosing their ranch because of it.

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

(Furrow) may have acted alone when he took his gun to target those Jewish children, ... but it's the (Aryan Nations') teachings of violence against Jews and the fear of Jews among its members that directly led him to do this.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat.

[This is what he said in The Washington Post about our attorney general and his actions:] The heat of this battle certainly matured this young man, ... His actions behind the scenes to orchestrate the state officials handling these things saved Alabama from constitutional crisis.