"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."
-Thurgood Marshall
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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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