This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.

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• Thurgood Marshall:

  Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is yo

• Thurgood Marshall:

  We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life

• Thurgood Marshall:

  My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: n

• Thurgood Marshall:

  We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppres

• Thurgood Marshall:

  'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But i

• Thurgood Marshall:

  It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it

• Thurgood Marshall:

  I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man'

• Thurgood Marshall:

  As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the rest

• Potter Stewart:

  Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

• Potter Stewart:

  Fairness is what justice really is.