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.”

“Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.”

“I will give you the best I have.”

“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.”

“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.”

“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.”

“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.”

“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”

“If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.”

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