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Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

"A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has 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 (1908 - 1993)
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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 Hastie, 1984.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
 
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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: quoted by M.D. Davis and H.R. Clark in Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench, 1992
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: c. 1983.
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I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: International Herald Tribune, 15 Jan 1990.
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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 (1908 - 1993)
Source: c. 1980.
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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 (1908 - 1993)
Source: We The People, 1987.
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Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: Dissenting opinion in 7-2 ruling that upheld police rules on short haircuts and no beards, 6 Apr 76
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: Unanimous opinion, guarantees right to have at home material, obscene if in public, 7 Apr 69
More quotes about: control, giving, government, men, power, thought
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