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Type: Judge Quotes Category: American Judge Quotes Date of Birth: July 2, 1908 Date of Death: January 24, 1993 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Thurgood Marshall Related Authors: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Sandra Day O'Connor Roy Moore Earl Warren Harold H. Greene Stephen Breyer Charles W. Pickering Learned Hand |
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.
Thurgood Marshall Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. Thurgood Marshall I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. Thurgood Marshall If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Thurgood Marshall If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Thurgood Marshall In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. Thurgood Marshall Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. Thurgood Marshall None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. Thurgood Marshall 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. Thurgood Marshall Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. Thurgood Marshall Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. Thurgood Marshall 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. Thurgood Marshall What is the quality of your intent? Thurgood Marshall |
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