American - Judge | July 2, 1908 - January 24, 1993
It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.
Thurgood Marshall
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the atmosphere of the home.
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'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.
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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.
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What is the quality of your intent?
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As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it's Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.
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Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
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We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.
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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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When you hear a lot of stories about Africa, and you get to a place like Kenya and other countries like that, where they think the same way we do, I was happy to find that the Schedule of Rights that I drew for the Kenyan Government was working very well.
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