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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

Thurgood Marshall

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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Accomplishment Challenge Discrimination End Race Selection
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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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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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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Acceptance Believe Constitution Forever Government Myself Start
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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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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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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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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