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

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

Category:
Black History
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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

Category:
alone
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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

Category:
Racism
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Other Quotes from
History
category

People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

Category:
History

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. – Martin Heidegger

Category:
History

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer

Category:
History

The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains

Category:
History

Random Quotes

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Miscellaneous

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. – Robert Bloch

Category:
smile

Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! – Sitting Bull

Category:
Love

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. – Friedrich Schiller

Category:
Wisdom