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Truth is more than a mental exercise.

Thurgood Marshall

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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Black Constitution Enjoyment Fair Myself Ourselves Talk
The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Ability Compassionate Country Greatness Time
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Destiny Journey Ourselves
We must dissent from the fear.
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Fear One Liner
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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Endurance History Liberty Right Teaching Threat
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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Break Lose Ourselves Togetherness Win
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Accomplishment Challenge Discrimination End Race Selection
It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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Discrimination History Practice Race Selection Shame
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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Constitution Control Government Heritage Man Mindset Power Thinking
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
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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Color Constitution Law Moral Ourselves Race Society
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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Help Journey Ourselves Parents Teacher
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit – a spirit that demands self-expression .
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Expression Human Need Service Spirit
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise Mental Truth
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
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Color Himself Man Missing World
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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Acceptance Believe Constitution Forever Government Myself Start

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