A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
THURGOOD MARSHALLI’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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What is the quality of your intent?
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
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The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.
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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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Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
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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.
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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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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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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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The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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The Constitution was a product of its times.
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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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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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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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