Civil rights Quote by Thurgood Marshall Download Open image “I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.” — Thurgood Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil rights Enough Ninety Odd Originals Thinking World Years
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Times are changing; we need to change too and start moving forward. It's part of evolution. — Akshara Haasan Copy Share Image
The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms… — 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 Image
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 Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology. We are… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image