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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

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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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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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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