Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim … - Dahlia Lithwick

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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Dahlia Lithwick

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

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The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

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I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable when you look across the street, and that, you know, I feel like the discourse has become so overheated that, you know, we talk about everything in the exact tone that seems to sort of preclude reason and to preclude the possibility of agreement.

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