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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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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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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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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 must dissent from the fear.
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