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— Thurgood Marshall"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure."
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We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.
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The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
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