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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.

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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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
It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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Black Born Children Goal Myself Person Right True White Worth
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth
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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Believe Hard Work Heart Broken Himself Man True
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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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Law Right Thinking Yourself
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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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Acceptance Believe Constitution Forever Government Myself Start
What is the quality of your intent?
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Intention One Liner Quality Yourself
Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
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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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Color Excuse Frustration Law Race
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Democracy Foundation Injustice Ourselves

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