Quote by Thurgood Marshall
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our

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

Other quotes by Thurgood Marshall

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Thurgood Marshall

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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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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. – Alexander the Great

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. – Karl Menninger

Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid. – Author Unknown

What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. – Author Unknown

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Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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