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

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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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

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We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. – Desmond Tutu

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Black History

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. – June Jordan

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Black History

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. – Franklin Thomas

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URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990s. – Chris Clark

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I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool! – Muammar al-Gaddafi

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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White

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Were giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. – Glenn Beck

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