"Son, when I appoint a nigger to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nigger."
— Nigger

January 1, 1970

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Said by President Lyndon Johnson to an aide in 1965 regarding the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as associate justice of the Supreme Court. As quoted in