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.
THURGOOD MARSHALLIt is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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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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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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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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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The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.
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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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