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Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. — Susan Orlean

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

I've always said it's better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it's better to feel this than to feel nothing. — Gayle Forman

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. — Thurgood Marshall

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

hadrons" - a collective term used by physicists for protons, neutrons and other particles governed by the strong nuclear force. — Bill Bryson

I don't lead you and you must not lead me too, but we have each other, go forward together as brothers and sisters. — Khem Veasna

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

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up, — Thurgood Marshall

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much. — Thurgood Marshall

We must dissent from the fear. — 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

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

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

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby? — Thurgood Marshall

What is the quality of your intent? — Thurgood Marshall

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

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. — Thurgood Marshall

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

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive] — Thurgood Marshall

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

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. — Dahlia Lithwick

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow — Morris Sheppard

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — 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

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

Auger-eyed woman's small stout form, outlining her — Richard Flanagan

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough. — Thurgood Marshall

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own. — Terry Teachout

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. — Constance Baker Motley

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday — Jack Kerouac

Truth is more than a mental exercise. — Thurgood Marshall

The only time that exists in life is now. — Ken Poirot