Truth is more than a mental exercise.
THURGOOD MARSHALLThe Constitution was a product of its times.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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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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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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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 measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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