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We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.

~Thurgood Marshall

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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

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I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

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We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.

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It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home.

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It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.

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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

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Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.

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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: July 2nd, 1908

Died: January 24th, 1993

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