To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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 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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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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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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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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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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