Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
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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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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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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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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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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