9 Quotes By Thurgood Marshall


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 on alone

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 on business

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 on freedom

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Thurgood Marshall on history

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

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

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

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 on teacher