Constitution Product Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

— 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.…

— 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…

— Thurgood Marshall

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

— Thurgood Marshall

We are all the same

— 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,…

— Thurgood Marshall

We must dissent from the fear.

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Thurgood Marshall

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

— 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…

— Thurgood Marshall