Thurgood Marshall
On Segregation
1954

All I say is that it'll not take as long as people in Mississippi and South Carolina imagine, and it will not come overnight. But I am as certain as I'm sitting here that governmentally-enforced segregation and governmentally-imposed discrimination because of race, creed, or color, so far as enforcement by government is concerned, will be off the books within the foreseeable future. And I think that that is the real job ahead, as, once the whole problem is laid bare and clear, then democracy will take over, and that means each individual.