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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

Thurgood Marshall

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What is the quality of your intent?
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Intention One Liner Quality Yourself
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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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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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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