Thurgood Marshall – Supreme Court Justice and Civil Rights Activist February 2, 2017 by Rose Caplan Thurgood Marshall on history and liberty – Thurgood Marshall in the Oval Office – By Okamoto, Yoichi R. (Yoichi Robert) Photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsHistory teaches that grave threats to liberty often comes in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem to extravagant too endure. ~Thurgood Marshall