Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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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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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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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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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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