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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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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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Teacher Appreciation
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance. – William Hazlitt

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Black History

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. – Carter Woodson, 1926

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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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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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