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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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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Freedom
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Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. – Stokely Carmichael

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Freedom

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. – Tony Blair

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Freedom

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

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Freedom

I was ecstatic they re-named French Fries as Freedom Fries. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. – Johnny Depp

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I like all Jim Carrey films. Theyre really funny. – Rupert Grint

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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas. – Saul Williams

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Age

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured. – Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False,

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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. – Will Rogers

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