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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.

Thurgood Marshall

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Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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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 measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
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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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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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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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