Author: Thurgood Marshall

Quotes

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.

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

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

- Thurgood Marshall

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

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

- Thurgood Marshall

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

- Thurgood Marshall

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