Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood MarshallThe 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 melted down.
Thurgood MarshallOur whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood MarshallPatriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]
Thurgood Marshall