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Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. - Thurgood Mars

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. – Thurgood Marshall

Other quotes by Thurgood Marshall

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

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Government
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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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Racism
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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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Black History
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Thurgood Marshall
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Other Quotes from
History
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History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill

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History

The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. – Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars

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History

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the worlds main religions? – Polly Toynbee

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History

What is history but a fable agreed upon? – Napoleon Bonaparte

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History

Random Quotes

Despair gives courage to a coward. – Thomas Fuller

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Courage

Dinner conversation at the Cohens meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the days events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head. – Andy Cohen

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mom

When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldnt have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country? – Sherman Austin

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car

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. – Rupert Brooke

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Admiration