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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Thurgood Marshall

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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Black Born Children Goal Myself Person Right True White Worth
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
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
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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Death Fall Ignorance Life Poor Prison Privilege Society
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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Alone Business Himself Home Law Man Meaning Movie Reading Rule See
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Democracy Foundation Injustice Ourselves
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
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
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
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
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
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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Color Excuse Frustration Law Race
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Humanity Ourselves Pay Recognition Respect
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Destiny Journey Ourselves
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Access Function
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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Constitution Control Government Heritage Man Mindset Power Thinking

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