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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

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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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The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn’t get in the pot or he didn’t get melted down.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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