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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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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
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"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
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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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"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
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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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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
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"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
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"There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000."
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"All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary."
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"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."
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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
"What is the quality of your intent?"
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"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
Husband
"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
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Humanity
"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."
Business
"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
History
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
Government
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