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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]

Thurgood Marshall

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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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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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We must dissent from the fear.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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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 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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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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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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