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
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. - Thurgood Marshall
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. - 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