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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

Thurgood Marshall

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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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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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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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