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| Thurgood Marshall | Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. | Delete |
| Thurgood Marshall | None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstarps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, and Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. | Delete |
| Thurgood Marshall | A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born the 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. | Delete |
| Thurgood Marshall | Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. | Delete |
| Thurgood Marshall | Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can only be accomplished by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. | Delete |
| Thurgood Marshall | Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place | Delete |
| Thurgood Marshall | In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute | Delete |
| Toni Morrison | American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen | Delete |
| Toni Morrison | Racism is a scholarly pursuit, it's taught, it's institutionalized | Delete |
| Toni Morrison | when a man angers you, He conquers you | Delete |
| Toni Morrison | If there is a book that you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet you must be the one to write it | Delete |
| Tupac Shakur | And tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride, To know I fought with all my heart to keep my dream alive | Delete |
| Tupac Shakur | We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and every one of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind. | Delete |
| W.E.B. Dubois | Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. | Delete |
| W.E.B. Dubois | No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse. | Delete |