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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."
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"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
"As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate."
"Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution."
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
"It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit."
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."
"Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean."
"The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters."
"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even 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."
"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."
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
"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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