Thurgood Marshall Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1908 - January 24, 1993

Topics

GreatEqualityNot PerfectReality

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Jessica Valenti

WomenBestPeopleThingsIncredible

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.

Jehane Noujaim

WorkEducationLiveHealthDoing

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Andrew Young

ProblemViolenceLessonMovement

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

Meghan Daum

ChallengePeopleWritingBelieve

The better day, the worse deed.

Matthew Henry

DayBetterWorseDeed

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

Jeff Greenfield

WomenMenPeopleBlackFighting

The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.

Steve Rushin

SportsManWillNeverThingsWho

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

Trevor Nunn

WayFixAnythingDisappointedGet

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

Tommy Chong

TeenFairFirstRadioOutContract

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Thornton Wilder

GoodWorldDangerEveryThing

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Richard P. Feynman

PastResultObservationBecomeReal

The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.

Kurt Fuller

LifeFlyYouMoviesWillSee

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