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Thurgood Marshall Quotes

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You do what you think is right and let the law catch up,  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) We must dissent from the fear  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) 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  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) What is the quality of your intent?  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What’s shaking, chiefy baby?  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) 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.  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) A man can make what he wants of  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Truth is more than a mental exercise  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) You do what you think is right and let the law catch up  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) What’s shaking, chiefy baby?  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Sometimes history takes things into its own hands  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes) Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman  (Thurgood Marshall Quotes)
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