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> [When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thurgood-marshall/when-in-gregg-v-georgia-the-supreme-court-gave-its-seal-of-approval/)

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

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## Other authors on Endorsements

## 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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