The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
THURGOOD MARSHALLDo what you think is right and let the law catch up.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
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Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
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Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
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Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
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