Thurgood Marshall Quotes

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York, for example: they'd give Negroes little five-cent jobs here and there - and they thought they had something. And the same in Chicago and any of the metropolitan areas.

Thurgood Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

New YorkActionThoughtYouNew

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

Joan Didion

ProcessPoliticalBecomeClearMeant

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Jeff Bezos

ChangeDangerousEvolve

Because we live so much of our adult lives as singles, it no longer makes sense to assume that marriage is the only way people will organize their obligations and commitments.

Stephanie Coontz

MarriageLivePeopleWillWayAdult

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.

Sonia Rykiel

QueenWorldKnowingWithoutSweaters

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Michael N. Castle

SchoolStepCollegeHigh SchoolHigh

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

GreatWordsRealityWellKnownFoes

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.

Jonathan Mayhew

PeopleStupidFindComplainMust

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

Donald Byrd

SayingColorBlackArtistFirst

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Ciara

MadTalkCurseUnless

I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.

Brad Anderson

MeThinkYouSummerKnowRock

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

Phyllis Schlafly

MediaValuesEnemiesBigAfter

I wasn't from the streets, but I was in the streets. I had a good family, nice home - you know, I can't say I grew up with nothing... but I chose to hang in the streets.

Pepa

FamilyGoodHomeYouKnowNice

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