Thurgood Marshall Quotes

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Humanity, Tribute)

"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: History)

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Business, Books, First, Man, May, State)

"What is the quality of your intent?"
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Quality)

"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Constitution, Decency, Freedom, Sense, Today)

"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Husband)

"Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process."
- Thurgood Marshall

"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps."
- Thurgood Marshall

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Government, Power, Thought, Control, Giving)

"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Discrimination, Ending, Jury)

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
- Thurgood Marshall
(Related: Mother, Goal, Baby, Challenge, Rights, State, states, United, Worth)