Thurgood Marshall

Notable quotes

“The experience of Negroes in America has been different in kind, not just in degree, from that of other ethnic groups. It is not merely the history of slavery alone, but also that a whole people were marked as inferior by the law. And that mark has endured.”
— Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 400-401 (1978) (Marshall, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).
“You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.”
— Rhode, Deborah L. “Letting the Law Catch Up.” Stanford Law Review 44 (1992): 1259–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229058.
“The effects of the Framers' compromise have remained for generations. They arose from the contradiction between guaranteeing liberty and justice to all, and denying both to Negroes.”
— Reflections on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 6 May 1987

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