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"To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy."

Thurgood Marshall, American Civil Rights lawyer and jurist.

PROTEST

Protest is an American right, guaranteed to those through the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Ratified on December 15, 1791, the First Amendment is as follows: 
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." (U.S. Const. am. 1.)
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