DAVID FRENCH, CNN ANCHOR: Retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall died today of heart failure. He was 84 years old.</s>BERNARD SHAW, WASHINGTON ANCHOR: Just as Marshall's legacy is simply, yet it's complex, here was a man who withstood physical and racist threats when he was a young lawyer traveling around the south, but he emerged with an even-deeper faith and belief in this country, and he exercised that belief by trying to protect the rights of others.</s>PAUL ROTHSTEIN, GEORGETOWN UNIV. LAW CENTER: He will be remembered as a voice for the little person, for the minority person.</s>SHAW: Here was a man who was refused admission to college and law school in Baltimore, who got his education notwithstanding racial discrimination, who became the solicitor general of this great country, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Lyndon Baines Johnson and who, not single-handily but with the help of a lot of brilliant minds, won the Brown versus Board of Education case before the Supreme Court in 1954, a landmark decision. When they honored him by putting his body on a catafalque as it lay in state there in the Supreme Court building, hundreds of thousands of people stood in the cold -- I was one of the people out there -- waiting quietly. The line stretched around the Supreme Court building. Thurgood Marshall proves my contention that this great nation's greatest strength is its citizens.
CNN 20: Thurgood Marshall Dies, January 24, 1993