Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
THURGOOD MARSHALLSome 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.
More Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.
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I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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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 measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
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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 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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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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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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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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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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We must dissent from the fear.
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It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
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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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