When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
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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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What is the quality of your intent?
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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The United Conference of Hemispheres
How about...
The United States?
'No.
That's what we're called now! '
Oh...
You're right.
I forgot.
Well..
How about,
The United Federation of Americas?
'Hmmm...
Now that does have a ring.
With Canada, Mexico...
And the current United States.
I like the sound of it! '
Or...
How about,
The United Western Hemisphere?
'YES!
That's brilliant.
We'll have a meeting this weekend,
To discuss it!
But we must go slowly with this.
The people are already going nuts over the economy!
But I do love this idea.
We'll have the United Northern Hemisphere.
The United Eastern Hemisphere.
And the United Southern Hemisphere.
Whenever we come to meet...
We'll call ourselves,
The United Conference of Hemispheres!
Pass that by President Obama.
See if he approves before the announcement is made!
We must consolidate all nations as soon as possible.'
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It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
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Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.
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Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
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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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The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
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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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The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.
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