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Quote by Thurgood Marshall
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our

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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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Government
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Todays 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. – Thurgood Marshall

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Freedom
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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. – Alexander the Great

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Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid. – Author Unknown

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. – Gail Godwin

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Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. – Author Unknown

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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. – King Abdullah II

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