Root and Branch Quotes

“Criminal cases raised membership and money; they guaranteed press coverage and exposed, more dramatically than the education cases ever could,”
― Rawn James Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

“Wisdom from Thurgood Marshall as a young attorney:

"Doctors can bury their mistakes. Lawyers cannot.”
― Rawn James Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

“One Baltimore man who had saved five hundred dollars to buy a car, “a lifelong ambition,” instead donated the money to the Legal Defense Fund. “Since I’ve waited this long for a car,” he explained, “I can wait a little more and be satisfied that this money will go as a down payment on freedom for my children and grandchildren.”
― Rawn James Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

“her husband believed “the test of character is the amount of strain it can bear,”
― Rawn James Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

“Marshall by now knew better than to approach Houston without a plaintiff in hand. Like all great trial lawyers, Houston was a fact-specific man. Facts turned cases that moved law; no fact was as important as who sought relief.”
― Rawn James Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation