I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected… — 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
![“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 the start. [Progressive]” quote by Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b2/thurgood-marshall-10063_accepting_i-cannot-accept-this-invitation-to-celeb_1653642.jpg)
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