“We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away…”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.comTagged: Indifference, Apathy, Fear, Hatred, Mistrust
“The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.comTagged: Government, Defective, Amendment, War, Transformation
“Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.comTagged: Words, Powerful Words, impact, People