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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Thurgood Marshall

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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 measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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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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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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