Burke Marshall (October 1, 1922 - June 2, 2003) was an American lawyer and head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Civil Rights Era.
Read more about Burke Marshall: Early Years, Government Career, Career After Government Service, Death
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“A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“I acknowledge that the balance I have achieved between work and family roles comes at a cost, and every day I must weigh whether I live with that cost happily or guiltily, or whether some other lifestyle entails trade-offs I might accept more readily. It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot—or will not—change.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)