Thurgood Marshall Quotes

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• Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot…
• The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into…
• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
• The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the…
• 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…
• 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…
• [T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
• Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written…
• A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
• Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
• The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
• The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,
• Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
• [It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
• [Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile…
• What's shaking, chiefy baby?
• A man can make what he wants of...
• We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by…
• Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
• Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

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