I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.
Thurgood MarshallCustomary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
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