Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshallwas an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth2 July 1908
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
frustration color law
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
country greatness compassion
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
memories powerful america
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
democracy foundation injustice
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
believe hard-work men
A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.
mean equal
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
teacher appreciation retirement
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
jobs blow government
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
believe punishment insanity
[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 to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.
thinking years world
I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
character united-states notorious
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]