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

Thurgood Marshall

I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Enough Myself Thinking World
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth
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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Color Excuse Frustration Law Race
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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Constitution Control Government Heritage Man Mindset Power Thinking
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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Death Fall Ignorance Life Poor Prison Privilege Society
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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Constitution Design Earth Jealous Nation Ourselves World
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Access Function
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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Hands History
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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Color Himself Man Missing World
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
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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Break Lose Ourselves Togetherness Win
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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Help Journey Ourselves Parents Teacher
We must dissent from the fear.
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Fear One Liner
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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Endurance History Liberty Right Teaching Threat
It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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Discrimination History Practice Race Selection Shame
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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Change Democracy Law Oneself Recognition Response Society

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