The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.
THURGOOD MARSHALLNone of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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. 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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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 Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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