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.
From Thurgood Marshall
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
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.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
What is the quality of your intent?
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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