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Quote by Thurgood Marshall
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. Bu

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

Other quotes by Thurgood Marshall

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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Thurgood Marshall
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Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

Category:
Freedom
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Thurgood Marshall
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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

Category:
Teacher Appreciation
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln

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Black History

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

Freedom is never given; it is won. – A. Philip Randolph

Category:
Black History

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

Category:
Black History

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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson

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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. – Charles Dudley Warner

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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. – Frances Wright

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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. – Proverb

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