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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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Fear One Liner
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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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Hands History
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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Democracy Foundation Injustice Ourselves
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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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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We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.
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Break Lose Ourselves Togetherness Win
I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Enough Myself Thinking World
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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