It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas.This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, is fundamental to our free society.
THURGOOD MARSHALLIn recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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I cannot accept this invitation for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
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The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit – a spirit that demands self-expression .
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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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Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
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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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