"Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy."

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Source : Thurgood Marshall's speech at the National Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha in St. Louis, Missouri (August 15, 1966) as quoted in "St. Louis Globe-Democrat" (p. 1), August 17, 1966.

Thurgood Marshall

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“Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.”
“Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.”
“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.”
“Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.”
“For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.”

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“The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.”
“We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.”
“My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.”

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