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> [I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/i-have-a-lifetime-appointment-and-i-intend-to-serve-it-i-expect-to/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

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## Other authors on Appointment

## More by Thurgood Marshall

> [None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/none-of-us-got-where-we-are-solely-by-pulling-ourselves-up-by-our/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/this-is-a-great-country-but-fortunately-for-you-it-is-not-perfect/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/classifications-and-distinctions-based-on-race-or-color-have-no-moral/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/our-whole-constitutional-heritage-rebels-at-the-thought-of-giving/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [We are all the same](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/we-are-all-the-same/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/we-could-get-more-action-in-the-south-because-the-negroes-had-a/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [We must dissent from the fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/we-must-dissent-from-the-fear/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/i-have-a-lifetime-appointment-and-i-intend-to-serve-it-i-expect-to/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/the-ku-klux-klan-never-dies-they-just-stop-wearing-sheets-because/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/some-may-more-quietly-commemorate-the-suffering-struggle-and/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/it-is-now-well-established-that-the-constitution-protects-the-right/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/to-the-contrary-the-government-they-devised-was-defective-from-the/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/today-s-constitution-is-a-realistic-document-of-freedom-only-because/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [Truth is more than a mental exercise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/truth-is-more-than-a-mental-exercise/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

> [I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/i-wish-i-could-say-that-racism-and-prejudice-were-only-distant/)

[Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thurgood-marshall/)

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