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

Thurgood Marshall

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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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Change Democracy Law Oneself Recognition Response Society
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
I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Accomplishment Challenge Discrimination End Race Selection
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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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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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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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 measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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Law Right Thinking Yourself
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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