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Thurgood Marshall
 
Date of birth: 02 July 1908
Date of death: 24 January 1993
Country Of Origin: America
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" A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. "

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

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" If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. "

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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. "

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" Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. "

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