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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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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Accomplishment Challenge Discrimination End Race Selection
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 death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
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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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Believe Hard Work Heart Broken Himself Man True
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Destiny Journey Ourselves
The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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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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Acceptance Believe Constitution Forever Government Myself Start
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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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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