We must dissent from the fear.
THURGOOD MARSHALLClassifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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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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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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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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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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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.
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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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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.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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