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Thurgood Marshall

"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."

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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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Thurgood Marshall
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
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Thurgood Marshall
"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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Thurgood Marshall
"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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Thurgood Marshall
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
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Thurgood Marshall
"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
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Thurgood Marshall
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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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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Thurgood Marshall
"What is the quality of your intent?"
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"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."

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Aberjhani

"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

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Aberjhani

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

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Aberjhani

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

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Aberjhani

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

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Aberjhani

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

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Aberjhani

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

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