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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Thurgood Marshall

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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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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 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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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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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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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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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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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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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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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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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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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