Quote by Thurgood Marshall
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect t

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. – Thurgood Marshall

Other quotes by Thurgood Marshall

Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

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Freedom
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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

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Racism
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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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Other Quotes from
Retirement
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. – Jim Bishop

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Retirement

Dont you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Retirement

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. – Seneca

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Retirement

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – Gail Sheehy

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Retirement

Random Quotes

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. – Ted Key

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Integrity

Ive always had a Work hard, play hard attitude to life – I still do – but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach. – Damian Lewis

Category:
Attitude

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. – Henry S. Haskins

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Attitude

Im not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on Paradise Lost to translate it. – Callan McAuliffe

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Poetry