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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.
Thurgood Marshall
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Thurgood Marshall
Age: 84 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 2
Died: 1993
Died: January 24
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
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Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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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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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.
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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.
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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. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
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I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], 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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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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