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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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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Ability Compassionate Country Greatness Time
We must dissent from the fear.
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Fear One Liner
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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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