Colleagues Quote by Deborah Rhode

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

“Justice John Marshall Harlan, who famously admonished his fellow jurists and the nation as a whole: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor…

— Dan Rather

I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John…

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Jeffrey Rosen

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

— Robert Kennedy

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that…

— Earl Warren

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the…

— David Josiah Brewer

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes…

— William J. Clinton

Justice Breyer, in particular, not only gave me the greatest job that any young lawyer could ever hope to have, but he also exemplifies…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

“By making defense lawyers more central to criminal litigation than they already were and by dramatically enlarging the range of legal claims they could…

— William J. Stuntz