[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
Thurgood MarshallNothing 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 MarshallThe measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.
Thurgood MarshallI'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
Thurgood MarshallSurely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood MarshallI 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