75 Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.

The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,

What's shaking, chiefy baby?

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

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

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.