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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Thurgood Marshall

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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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 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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
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