The Constitution was a product of its times.
THURGOOD MARSHALLThe Constitution was a product of its times.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
-
-
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas.This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, is fundamental to our free society.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
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 -
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
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 -
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
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 -
I cannot accept this invitation for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
THURGOOD MARSHALL -
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
THURGOOD MARSHALL