It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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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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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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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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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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Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
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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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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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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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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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