We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.
THURGOOD MARSHALLWe can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.
THURGOOD MARSHALLI’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
THURGOOD MARSHALLIt is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
THURGOOD MARSHALLA 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 MARSHALLIn recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
THURGOOD MARSHALLTruth is more than a mental exercise.
THURGOOD MARSHALLHistory teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
THURGOOD MARSHALLA man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
THURGOOD MARSHALLThe 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.
THURGOOD MARSHALLDo what you think is right and let the law catch up.
THURGOOD MARSHALLOur whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
THURGOOD MARSHALLI 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 MARSHALLWhat is the quality of your intent?
THURGOOD MARSHALLToday’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.
THURGOOD MARSHALLLawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
THURGOOD MARSHALLTo protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
THURGOOD MARSHALL