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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.

Thurgood Marshall

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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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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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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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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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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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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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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