Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
issues voters messages
The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,
baby black-history black
What's shaking, chiefy baby?
challenges black-racism discrimination
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
thinking years world
I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
teacher soulmate teaching
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
believe government philadelphia
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
ideas government fundamentals
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.
patriotic justice feelings
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]
business book mean
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
freedom democracy today
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.
envy design democracy
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
hands historical sometimes
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
men giving mind
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
respect quality intention
What is the quality of your intent?