I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
Thurgood MarshallWe can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
Thurgood MarshallThe First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .
Thurgood MarshallI 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 Marshall