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"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
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"Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love."

"Always act as if you are living the epitome of a magnificent life."

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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."

"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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