E. G. Marshall Quotes

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

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

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

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

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.

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

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

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

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.