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

Other quotes by Thurgood Marshall

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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Black History
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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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alone
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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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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. – Alice Walker

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Freedom

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. – Bernard Baruch

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Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. – James Russell Lowell

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Freedom

Theres a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didnt – and Jamaican stories. – Neil Gaiman

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Freedom

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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. – Paul Cezanne

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Its the sad thing about entertainment, its not always about who is the best. – Jake Roberts

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sad

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination – at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent. – Renny Harlin

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Experience

Its funny how intimate it feels to get a text. – Sophie Ellis Bextor

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