"The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression ."

-- Thurgood Marshall

#Self Quotes #Expression Quotes #Demand Quotes

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
“How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?”

Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.25, Knopf
“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”
“Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.”
“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.”
“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”
“The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.”

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