"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
BusinessView Quote
"Today's 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
posted in Freedom
Other Quotes by Thurgood Marshall
Discover more inspiring quotes by Thurgood Marshall
"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."
-Thurgood Marshall
TeacherView Quote
"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
-Thurgood Marshall
HistoryView Quote
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
-Thurgood Marshall
PowerView Quote
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
-Thurgood Marshall
PoliticsView Quote
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
-Thurgood Marshall
MenView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
-Soren Kierkegaard
FreedomView Quote
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
-Jim Morrison
FreedomView Quote
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-Ronald Reagan
FreedomView Quote
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
FreedomView Quote
"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
-Kurt Vonnegut
FreedomView Quote
"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
FreedomView Quote