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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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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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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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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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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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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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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.
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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 a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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