Quote by Thurgood Marshall
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – 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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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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Black History
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. – Andrew Johnson

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Government

I want the government to provide the military so we dont get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that. – Benjamin Carson

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Government

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Government

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, youd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. – Karel Capek

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Government

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

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Its not the work which kills people, its the worry. Its not the revolution that destroys machinery its the friction. – Henry Ward Beecher

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work

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can. – Gary Comer

Meditation needs an awake mind not an unconscious one. – Annamalai Swami

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