| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38364 |
| QUOTATION: | There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents—if the term is to be used at all. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bernadette McAliskey (Nee Devlin) (b. 1947), Northern Irish politician. Quoted in Irish Times (Dublin, July 31, 1971).
The words are not original—the lawyer León Yankwich said the same during a hearing at the State District Court, Southern District of California, in 1928, and he was quoting the journalist O.O. McIntyre. |
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