To 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 MarshallMere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood MarshallCustomary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
Thurgood MarshallThe Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.
Thurgood Marshall