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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

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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Expression Human Need Service Spirit
What is the quality of your intent?
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Intention One Liner Quality Yourself
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
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
The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Ability Compassionate Country Greatness Time
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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Equality Justice Law Place Time
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
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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Constitution Design Earth Jealous Nation Ourselves World
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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Believe Hard Work Heart Broken Himself Man True
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Destiny Journey Ourselves
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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Ability Direction Issues Seek Vote
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth
We must dissent from the fear.
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Fear One Liner
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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Acceptance Believe Constitution Forever Government Myself Start
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
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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Help Journey Ourselves Parents Teacher

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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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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