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

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

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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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Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. – Helen Peters

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

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. – Khalil Gibran

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Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. – Lord Jeffrey

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Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. – Donella Meadows

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I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. – George Edmund Street

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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton

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