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

Thurgood Marshall

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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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Humanity Ourselves Pay Recognition Respect
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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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
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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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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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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.
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn’t get in the pot or he didn’t get melted down.
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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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