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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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"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
Government
"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
"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman."
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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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"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
Humanity
"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
History
"What is the quality of your intent?"
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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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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."
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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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"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."
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"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
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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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"They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened."
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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
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"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
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"I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case."
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"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
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"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."
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