https://t.inks.page/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall?t=2026-04-11 History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. The World War II relocation-camp cases, Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943); Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), and the Red scare and McCarthy-era internal subversion cases, Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919); Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951), are only the most extreme reminders that when we allow fundamental freedoms to be sacrificed in the name of real or perceived exigency, we invariably come to regret it.

• Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association, 489 U.S. 602 (1989), Dissenting opinion (March 21, 1989), at 635.

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