I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn’t get in the pot or he didn’t get melted down.
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Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
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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.
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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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.
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The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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