Quote by Thurgood Marshall
Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only becaus

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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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. – 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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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. – Philip Wylie

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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. – Walter Cronkite

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Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose. – Kris Kristofferson

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