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Truth is more than a mental exercise.

Thurgood Marshall

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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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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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 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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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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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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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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