Thurgood Marshall Quotes

Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look…

— Laurence Fishburne

I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.

— Kenneth Frazier

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.

— Dahlia Lithwick

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what…

— Monte Irvin

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

— Constance Baker Motley

Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I…

— Robert Kennedy

There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall…

— Chadwick Boseman

Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Thurgood Marshall because of his experience of discrimination did bring a special perspective to the court. That’s what his colleagues on the…

— Deborah Rhode

“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“With only a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, primarily by eviscerating Fourth Amendment…

— Michelle Alexander

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther…

— Louis Menand

“Some specialized types of administrative legislation require further attention—for example, determinations that make law. These determinations echo the old determinations of facts,…

— Philip Hamburger