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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.

Thurgood Marshall

It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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Discrimination History Practice Race Selection Shame
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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Hands History
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.
THURGOOD MARSHALL

Constitution Establishment Freedom Fundamental Ideas Ourselves Protection Right Society Worth
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Humanity Ourselves Pay Recognition Respect
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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Fact Hairs Identify Man
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Destiny Journey Ourselves
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Democracy Foundation Injustice Ourselves
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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Constitution Control Government Heritage Man Mindset Power Thinking
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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Endurance History Liberty Right Teaching Threat
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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Equality Justice Law Place Time
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Access Function
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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Color Excuse Frustration Law Race
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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Color Constitution Law Moral Ourselves Race Society
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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Color Himself Man Missing World
The Constitution was a product of its times.
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Constitution Government Production Time
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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Country Melt Myself Nation Opinion Time

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