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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.

Thurgood Marshall

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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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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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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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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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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