I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share
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
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
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share
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
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
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
