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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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