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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.
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Jealous
History
Husband
Lifetime
Die
Appointment
Shot
Expect
Intend
Serve
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What's shaking, chiefy baby?
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Baby
Black
Black History
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We must dissent from the fear.
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Dissent
Mistrust
Racism And Prejudice
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What is the quality of your intent?
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Quality
Respect
Intention
Shattering
Intent
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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Exercise
Truth Is
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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History
Hands
Historical
Political
Takes
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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Law
Thinking
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[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
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Constitution
Products
Progressive
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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Equal
Mean
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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Democracy
Foundation
Injustice
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Teacher
Soulmate
Teaching
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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
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Baby
Burgers
Justice
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I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Thinking
World
Years
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Inspirational
Inspiring
Freedom
Black History
Highest
Humanity
Pay
Recognizing
Tribute
Beings
Fellow
Ourselves
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The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.
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Cost
Ku Klux Klan
Prejudice
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The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Compassion
Country
Greatness
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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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Access
Doe
Doors
Mere
Process
Adversary
Assure
Courthouse
Proper
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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Government
Men
Freedom Of Speech
Giving
Heritage
Whole
Constitutional
Minds
Rebels
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Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
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Blind
Individual
Must Your Goals
Own
Follower
Listen
Each
Goals
Must
Pick
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Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
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Design
Democracy
Envy
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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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Historical
Practice
Steps
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A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
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Men
Believe
Hard Work
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Accomplished
Black Racism
Challenges
Discrimination
Jury
Selection
Ending
Entirely
Racial
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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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Facts
Hair
Police
Police Officer
Below
Collar
Wearing
Officer
Surely
Uniformed
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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
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Inspirational
Historical
Rights
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The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .
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Expression
Needs
Self
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It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home.
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Atmosphere
Granted
Taken
Taken For Granted
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Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
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Court
Important Things
Supreme
Supreme Court
Among
Deciding
The Most Important
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Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
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Country
Democracy
Inequality
Injustice
Protect
Speak
Because
Make
Out
You
Wrong
Pass
See
Where
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Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
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Color
Frustration
Race
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We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
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Grace
Mean
Winning
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The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.
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Issues
Messages
Voters
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Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.
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Color
Law
Race
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My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
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Permission
Believed
Castle
Rule
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.
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Country
Justice
Years
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
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Freedom
Men
Black History
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As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it's Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.
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Reality
Restaurants
Boy
Mr
Close
Joe
Reach
Soon
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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.
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Alone
Business
Book
First Amendment
House
Mean
Sitting
Amendment
Books
Read
Watch
Films
No Business
Telling
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The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.
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Democracy
Law
Needs
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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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Freedom
Cherish
Constitution
Decency
Democracy
Fairness
Realistic
Speak
Today
Amendment
Blacks
Corrective
Document
Sense
Several
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Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
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Character
Notorious
United States
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This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
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Equality
Country
Democratic
Done
Great Country
Hunger
Not Perfect
Perfect
Principles
Reality
Remove
Theory
Bring
Closer
Complete
Fortunately
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Appreciation
Smile
Teacher
Bent
Boots
Bootstraps
Ivy
Ivy League
League
Parent
Pulling
Retirement
Teaching
Because
Down
Few
Got
Helped
Ourselves
None
Nuns
Up
Pick
Solely
Where
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The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
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Fall
Ignorant
Punishment
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It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.
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Government
Fundamentals
Ideas
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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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Baby
Black
Born
Children
Mississippi
Mother
Rights
United
United States
White
Child
Anyone
True
Same
Challenge
State
Working
Exactly
Exactly The Same
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It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.
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Discrimination
Elimination
Segregation
United States
Anything Else
Constantly
Manifested
North
Pressures
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When you hear a lot of stories about Africa, and you get to a place like Kenya and other countries like that, where they think the same way we do, I was happy to find that the Schedule of Rights that I drew for the Kenyan Government was working very well.
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Other Countries
Rights
Stories
Africa
Countries
Drew
Schedule
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I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
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Government
Believe
Philadelphia
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We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.
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Chicago
Example
Metropolitan
Oppressed
Area
For Example
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