Thurgood marshall quotes and sayings

1. "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

2. "Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."

3. "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."

4. "The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis."

5. "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."

6. "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

7. "The legal system can force open doors and sometimes even knock down walls. But it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me."

8. "I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust."

9. "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."

10. "The United States is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."

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