To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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