Thurgood Marshall

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#humour #satire #satire

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

— Thurgood Marshall

#die #expect #husband #i #intend

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

#blacks #cherish #constitution #corrective #decency

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

— Thurgood Marshall

#fellow #highest #humanity #our #ourselves

What is the quality of your intent? ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#quality #your

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

— Thurgood Marshall

#constitutional #control #giving #government #heritage

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#history #into #own #sometimes #takes

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

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

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

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

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

— Thurgood Marshall

#collar #fact #hair #him #his