Quote by Thurgood Marshall
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

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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alone
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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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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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Other Quotes from
History
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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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History

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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History

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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History

I dont want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman

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History

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. – Arthur Koestler

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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Honesty

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. – Sallust

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Health

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do. – Rosalind Wiseman

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positive