_______________Colossians 3:14,15_
Above
all,
clothe
your-
selves
with
love,
which binds everything together
in perfect harmony. And let
the peace of Christ rule
in your hearts…
* Thurgood Marshall
1908 - 1993.
lawyer and jurist
In 1967 Presdient John-
son appointed him to be
the first African-Amer-
ican to be associate jur-
ist of the United States Su-preme Court. LBJ had passed the Civil Rights Bill in 1964, a year after the assassination of President
John F.Kennedy. Grant that,
following his ex
-ample, we may know
you and recognize that we
are that we are all your children
brothers and sisters… - Collect
*His feast day is actually yesterday, the 7th, but some-
'how missed it. But he’s especially important in these
days when Republican judicial nominees are failing
to hands down affirm Brown v Board of Education,
which is base-ine-civil rights legisation. Reading
from the DOJ website: "...Chief Justice Warren
was able to do something that his predecessor
had not—i.e. bring all of the Justices to agree to
support a unanimous decision declaring segre-
gation in public schools unconstitutional. On
May 14, 1954, he delivered the opinion of
the Court, stating "We conclude that in the
field of public education the doctrine of
'separate but equal' has no place.
Separate educational facilities
are inherently unequal. . ."
“Eternal
vigilance
is the
price
of liberty”
- Wendell Phillips
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