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]
Thurgood MarshallCustomary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
Thurgood Marshall[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
Thurgood MarshallNone 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.
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