Thurgood Marshall [1908-1993] American    
Rank: 101
Judge
Alone, Business, Freedom, Government, History, Politics, Power, Teacher
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| 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. | Teacher | 101 | | 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. | Freedom | 102 | | 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. | | 103 | | 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. | Alone, Business | 104 | | Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. | History | 105 | | I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. | | 106 | | In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. | | 107 | | Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. | Government, Politics, Power | 108 | | Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. | | 109 | | Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. | | 110 | | What is the quality of your intent? | | 111 | | Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. | | 112 |
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