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• Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get…
• The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either…
• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
• The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment…
• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…
• I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the…
• [T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
• Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected…
• A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and…
• Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
• The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
• The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and…

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