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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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"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
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"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
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"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."
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"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution."
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"The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence."
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"I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times."
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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Humanity

"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."
Constitution

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

"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
History

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

"What is the quality of your intent?"
Quality

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

"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."
Business

"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."
Mother

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