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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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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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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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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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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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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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