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 MARSHALLWe can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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.
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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
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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.
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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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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 Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
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We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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We must dissent from the fear.
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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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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Truth is more than a mental exercise.
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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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