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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

Thurgood Marshall

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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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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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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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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas.This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, is fundamental to our free 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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth

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