... accomplishing goals. These attributes were instilled within him from day one. He could be anything he wanted and no one had the power, including the white male, to take that from him. When Thurgood started school no one really expected that much from him. He ... on the Court. He was an unrepentant liberal whose commitment to equality only expanded during his years of service. He remained true to the values of freedom and equality despite the erosion of the liberal majority that he helped sustain when he was first appointed. One of his last quotes that stand out to me the most was this on...

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... about the innate inferiority of some racial groups, combined with the power to transform these ideas into practices that deny or exclude equality of treatment on the basis of race. In the book Racism, Robert Miles quotes Wellman when he says, "A racist is someone who defends, protects ... or enhances social organization based on racial disadvantage. It is determined by the consequences of a ... assimilation, otherwise known as amalgamation, happens when people of different ethnic groups. Psychological assimilation is a change in self identification racially or ethnically on the part of...

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