Thurgood Marshall Quotes About Democracy
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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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Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
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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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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
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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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Thurgood Marshall
- Born: July 2, 1908
- Died: January 24, 1993
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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