Quote by Thurgood Marshall
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exa

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. Its not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. – Thurgood Marshall

Other quotes by Thurgood Marshall

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

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Black History
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

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I wasnt always black… There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. – Bill Cosby

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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. – Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan

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Racism

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon

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Racism

In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world. – Medgar Evers

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Racism

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I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless. – Peter Walker

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I dont want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesnt improve what Im trying to do. I figure, once Ive done my job, its none of my business. – Johnny Depp

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Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of “what-if.” – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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