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 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.Thurgood Marshall
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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby.
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