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This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Equality
#Great
#Not Perfect
#Reality
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Access
#Adversary
#Does
#Doors
#Process
I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Great
#Man
#Myself
#Sacrifice
#Vision
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Castle
#Father
#House
#Man
#Without
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
#Hair
#Make
#Police
#Policeman
#Will
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Challenges
#Discrimination
#Ending
#Jury
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Hands
#History
#Own
#Sometimes
#Things
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
#Alone
#Amendment
#Business
#House
#Man
#Sitting
What is the quality of your intent?
- Thurgood Marshall
#Intent
#Quality
#Your
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
#Black
#Born
#Mother
#True
#White
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
#Constitution
#Freedom
#Speak
#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
#Die
#Husband
#Jealous
#Lifetime
#Shot
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Humanity
#Our
#Ourselves
#Pay
#Tribute
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Blind
#Follower
#Goals
#Others
#Own
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Giving
#Government
#Men
#Politics
#Power
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Country
#Democracy
#Injustice
#Speak
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.
- Thurgood Marshall
#Boots
#Down
#Teacher
#Up
#Us
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