Thurgood Marshall Quotes

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

Teacher, Down, Here

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Politics, Men, Power

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

Mother, True, Person

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Thurgood Marshall

Husband, Jealous, Die

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall

Humanity, Ourselves, Pay

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

Freedom, Today, Sense

What is the quality of your intent?
Thurgood Marshall

Quality, Intent

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall

Process, Proper, Doors

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

Business, Alone, May

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Thurgood Marshall

History, Sometimes, Takes

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall

Challenges, Ending, Racial

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

Him, Fact, Hair

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: July 2, 1908

Died: January 24, 1993

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