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Thurgood Marshall Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“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
Tagged: parent, Teacher, helping hand, Compassion
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: Service, Death, Jealousy, Lifetime, Appointment
“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.”
— Thurgood Marshall, Grace under Pressure
Tagged: Grace, Losing, Winning, Unity, Sticking Together, pressure
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: History, Liberty, Constitutional Rights, Threat
“The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: country, Greatness, Compassion, Crisis
“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
Tagged: Man, Belief, believing, Hard Work, Heartbreaks
“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
Tagged: Classification, distinction, Race, Color, Morality, Society, Constitution, Laws
“The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.”
— Thurgood Marshall, The Philosophy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall(QUOTES)
Tagged: Ku Klux Klan
“[Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: discrimination, racism, Challenge
“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: First Amendment, Reading, Books, Films, Business, Freedom, Democracy
“Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: lawlessness, Anarchy, excuses
“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
Tagged: Children, America, Challenge, Goals, Motherhood, Worth, rights, equal rights
“Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.”
— Thurgood Marshall
Tagged: Suffering, Struggle, Sacrifice, Celebration, Constitution
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