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Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

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It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

Source: In American Political Women, by Esther Stineman, 1980.
-- Martha Wright Griffiths, (Jan 29 1912-2003), US politician; She was a Congresswoman from Michigan 1955-1975, best known for adding sex discrimination as a prohibited act in the 1962 Civil Rights Act.


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