“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Thurgood Marshall 
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Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall 
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