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
thinking years world
I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
teacher soulmate teaching
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
believe government philadelphia
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
ideas government fundamentals
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.
patriotic justice feelings
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]
business book mean
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.
freedom democracy today
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.
envy design democracy
Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
hands historical sometimes
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
men giving mind
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
respect quality intention
What is the quality of your intent?
constitution progressive products
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
country years justice
Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.
exercise truth-is
Truth is more than a mental exercise.