Original: «The legal system can force open doors, and sometimes-even knock down walls, but it cannot build bridges. That job belongs to you and me. The country can't do it. Afro and White, rich and poor, educated and illiterate, our fates are bound together. We can run from each other, but we cannot escape each other. We will only attain freedom if we learn to appreciate what is different, and muster the courage to discover what is fundamentally the same. America's diversity offers so much richness and opportunity. Take a chance, won't you? Knock down the fences, which divide. Tear apart the walls that imprison you. Reach out. Freedom lies just on the other side. We shall have liberty for all.»
Fuente: Marshall, Thurgood. Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings. Editor J. Clay Smith, Jr. Edición ilustrada. Editorial University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ISBN 9780812236903. p. 314.
Fuente: Discurso pronunciado el 6 de septiembre de 1990, antes de la Conferencia Judicial Anual del Segundo Circuito.