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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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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

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 is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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