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 MARSHALLWe must dissent from the fear.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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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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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
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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.
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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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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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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]
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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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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 must dissent from the fear.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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 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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