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On a day like today, on July 9, 1868, the required majority of states ratified the 14th Amendment, forever changing our Constitution. Its words enshrined equal protection of the law, due process, and the privileges that come with citizenship. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/opinion/14th-amendment-african-americans-citizenship.html …
Justice Thurgood Marshall knew well that the 14th Amendment wasn’t “self-fulfilling,” but that it fell to all of us to make it real: “The 14th Amendment and its grand ideal of equality under the law have meant no more than succeeding generations were willing for them to mean.”
In that speech, delivered on the centennial of the 14th Amendment, Justice Marshall continued: “Without committed action by committed individuals, without persistent use of the legal and political tools created in 1868, the amendment could not be expected to match its promise.”
Even after winning the landmark Brown v. Board of Education and ascending to the nation’s highest court, Justice Marshall was acutely aware that continued “activism in the pursuit of justice,” the same kind he championed, was crucial to fulfilling the 14th Amendment’s mandate.
Today, as the future of the Supreme Court — and our very own — hangs in the balance, let us resolve, as Justice Marshall exhorted, to link up arms against injustice and give meaning to a constitutional promise that’s only as good as we want it to be.pic.twitter.com/3kl8oL5TeU
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