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

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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. – Bill Frist

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Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. – Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, advice to all black youth, c.1967

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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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Once victim, always victim — thats the law! – Thomas Hardy

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Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. – Mme. de Puixieux

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Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesnt occur when were on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. – David Ogden Stiers

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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. – Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925

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