Thurgood Marshall Quotes

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

Moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

You must always do what you feel is right.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

You just have to do what you know is right.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

I have to do what's right.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I do what I think is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.