Which leader shows this quote?

Question

"A Life is not important except in the impact that it has on other lives."

Not the person who wrote it, but a leader who showed the meaning of this quote. Thanks!

Answer 1

The quotation, attributed to Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, the baseball great who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and whose life served as a shining example of courage, conviction and leadership, brings to mind another man with those traits.  A leader who, like "Jackie" Robinson, did so much to breakdown barriers and to carve out paths for others, not once, but throughout much of his life:   Thurgood Marshall.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson of a slave.  In 1930, he applied to the University of Maryland Law School, but was denied admission because he was Black.  During that same year, he sought admission and was accepted at the Howard University Law School.

In 1933, he received his law degree from Howard U. and began a private practice in Baltimore.  In that same year, Marshall won his first major court case when he successfully sued the University of Maryland to admit a young African American Amherst University graduate named Donald Gaines Murray.  

Soon he was enlisted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to help with the civil rights battles being waged. Working full time, first as special counsel for the NAACP and then as director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Marshall masterminded the litigation strategy that challenged racial oppression in education, housing, transportation, electoral politics, and criminal justice.  During the next 23 years he won 29 of the 32 major cases in the United States Supreme Court.  These victories included landmark cases:  "Smith v. Allwright" (1944), which gave African Americans the right to vote in Democratic primary elections; "Morgan v. Virginia" (1946), which outlawed the state's policy of segregation as it applied to bus transportation between different states; "Sweatt v. Painter" (1950), requiring the admission of an African American student to the University of Texas Law School; and "Brown v. Board of Education" (1952-1954), in which the Court finally concluded that the apartheid doctrine of "Separate-but-Equal" was inherently unequal and unconstitutional.  

The success of the "Brown" case served as a crucial spark leading to the 1960s civil rights movement.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Thurgood Marshall to serve as a judge on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Marshall was confirmed by the Senate a year later after undergoing extensive hearings.

Three years later, Marshall accepted an appointment from President Lyndon Johnson as Solicitor General of the United States. In this post, Marshall successfully defended the United States in a number of important cases. Through his office he defended civil rights actions on behalf of the American people instead of (as in his NAACP days) as counsel strictly for African Americans.

In 1967, President Johnson nominated Marshall as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Marshall's nomination was strongly opposed by several southern senators on the Judiciary Committee, but he was confirmed. He took his seat on October 2, 1967, becoming the first African American justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

He served with distinction on the Court for 24 years. He consistently supported the position taken by those challenging discrimination based on race or s*x, opposed the death penalty, and was a voice for liberty, justice and equality.

In the late 1980s, Justice Marshall suffered heart attacks, pneumonia, blood clots, and glaucoma.  He was forced by illness to give up his seat in 1991.  He died in 1993 at the age of 84.

"A life is not important except in the impact that it has on other lives."  Thurgood Marshall's life is the sweeping and inspirational story of an enduring figure in American life, a descendant of slaves who worked on behalf of Black Americans, but built a structure of individual rights that became the cornerstone of protections and opportunities for ALL Americans.

Answer 2

winston churchill - WW2