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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."

"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."

"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."

"Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others."

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

"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."

"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."

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

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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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