Thurgood Marshall

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

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.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

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.

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.

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.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

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.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit a spirit that demands self expression.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

What is the quality of your intent?

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.