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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."

"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."

"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."

"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

"It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point."

"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."

"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."

"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."

"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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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."


"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman."


"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."


"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."


"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."


"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."


"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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