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The Constitution was a product of its times.

Thurgood Marshall

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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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Intention One Liner Quality Yourself
The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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