Thurgood Marshall Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Democracy, Foundation, Injustice

• History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

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  Inspirational, Rights, Historical

  "Neither Liberty, Nor Safety" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1989.

• The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

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  Law, Democracy, Needs

• 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.

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  Freedom, Democracy, Today

• Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Envy, Design, Democracy

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