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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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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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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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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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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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