Thurgood Marshall Quotes (9 quotations)
1. 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. - Thurgood Marshall
2. Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. - Thurgood Marshall
3. If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. - Thurgood Marshall
4. It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. - Thurgood Marshall
5. Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions. - Thurgood Marshall
6. Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. - Thurgood Marshall
7. 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
8. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall
9. 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
2. Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. - Thurgood Marshall
3. If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. - Thurgood Marshall
4. It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. - Thurgood Marshall
5. Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions. - Thurgood Marshall
6. Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. - Thurgood Marshall
7. 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
8. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall
9. 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
