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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.

Thurgood Marshall

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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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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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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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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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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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Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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