When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital…

- Thurgood Marshall

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to…

- Thurgood Marshall

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got …

- Thurgood Marshall

Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

- Thurgood Marshall

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

- Thurgood Marshall

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

- Thurgood Marshall

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

- Thurgood Marshall

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…

- Thurgood Marshall

We must dissent from the fear.

- Thurgood Marshall