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 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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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 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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
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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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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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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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