Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“With only a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, primarily by eviscerating Fourth Amendment… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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