Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
THURGOOD MARSHALLDo what you think is right and let the law catch up.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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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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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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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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