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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
"Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account."
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"Children can be told anything-anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."
"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."
"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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