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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

Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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Law Right Thinking Yourself
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth
What is the quality of your intent?
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Intention One Liner Quality Yourself
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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Color Excuse Frustration Law Race
I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Enough Myself Thinking World
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
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Help Journey Ourselves Parents Teacher
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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Constitution Control Government Heritage Man Mindset Power Thinking
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
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.
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Black Born Children Goal Myself Person Right True White Worth
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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Break Lose Ourselves Togetherness Win
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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Black Constitution Enjoyment Fair Myself Ourselves Talk
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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Constitution Design Earth Jealous Nation Ourselves World
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Democracy Foundation Injustice Ourselves
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Access Function
The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Ability Compassionate Country Greatness Time
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Destiny Journey Ourselves

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.

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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.

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