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Quote by Thurgood Marshall
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has n

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

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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

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Teacher Appreciation
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Thurgood Marshall
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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. Its not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. – Thurgood Marshall

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Racism
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, Id start writing poems about suicide. – Jack Nicholson

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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone. – Ashley Judd

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alone

You watch an old Jeopardy! and the categories alone are very plain. Poetry, or Movies, or Physics. If you watch it now, though, therell be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions. – Ken Jennings

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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller

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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange anothers happiness. – Graham Greene

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. – Leon Kass

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