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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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"It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says."
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"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the 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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"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 of election is the very essence of the constitution."
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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
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"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
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"This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one."
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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."
Constitution
"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
"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
History
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
Discrimination
"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."
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"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
Government
"What is the quality of your intent?"
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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Humanity
"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
"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
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