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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.

Thurgood Marshall

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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 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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What is the quality of your intent?
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
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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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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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