Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
Thurgood MarshallLawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.
Thurgood MarshallMere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood MarshallTo the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.
Thurgood Marshall