Thurgood Marshall Quotes
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Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
— 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
A man can make what he wants of ...
— Thurgood Marshall
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
— Thurgood Marshall
Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet.
— Kristin Hannah
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
— Thurgood Marshall
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
— Thurgood Marshall
I've found that people work harder when they are held accountable, and their confidence level rises along with that.
— Donald J. Trump
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional ... a map to self discovery.
— Gabrielle Roth
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
— Thurgood Marshall
What is the quality of your intent?
— Thurgood Marshall
Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
— Thurgood Marshall
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."
— Baal Shem Tov
She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
— Janet Flanner
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 Marshall
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
— Thurgood Marshall
We must dissent from the fear.
— Thurgood Marshall
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.
— Thurgood Marshall
You do what you think is right and let the law catch up,
— Thurgood Marshall
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
— Thurgood Marshall
We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
— Thurgood Marshall
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
— Thurgood Marshall
Truth is more than a mental exercise.
— Thurgood Marshall
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
— Constance Baker Motley
I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
— Thurgood Marshall
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
— Thurgood Marshall
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
— Thurgood Marshall
The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,
— Thurgood Marshall
Praying is the time to ask and meditating is the time to listen.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
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
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
— Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
— Dahlia Lithwick
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression .
— Thurgood Marshall
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
— Thurgood Marshall