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Quote by Thurgood Marshall
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. Bu

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

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Other Quotes from
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. – Ida B. Wells

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Black History

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. – Billie Holiday

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Black History

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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. – James Allen

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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. – Ibrahim Babangida

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