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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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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President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. – Mitt Romney

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There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. – Charles Kingsley

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We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but its not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. Were not free – if we were, wed allow people their freedom. – Jesse Ventura

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Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. – Brad Thor

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