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 MARSHALLEqual means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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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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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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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
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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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