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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Thurgood Marshall

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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Hands History
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
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Alone Business Himself Home Law Man Meaning Movie Reading Rule See
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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Acceptance Believe Constitution Forever Government Myself Start
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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Equality Justice Law Place Time
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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Break Lose Ourselves Togetherness Win
A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
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Believe Hard Work Heart Broken Himself Man True
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Access Function
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.
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Color Constitution Law Moral Ourselves Race Society
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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Ability Direction Issues Seek Vote
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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Endurance History Liberty Right Teaching Threat
We must dissent from the fear.
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Fear One Liner
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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Expression Human Need Service Spirit
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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Fact Hairs Identify Man
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.
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Constitution Establishment Freedom Fundamental Ideas Ourselves Protection Right Society Worth
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Accomplishment Challenge Discrimination End Race Selection

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