First and foremost that education was the antidote to most of his society's ills.
Thurgood Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
He is considered important today for his laws. He came up with the saying “An eye for an eye”. He set himself apart from the other kings by setting a large list of laws that caused mixed reactions. For example, one of his laws were “If a man knocks the eye out of a free man, his eye shall be knocked out too.” Some viewed his laws as cruel while others viewed them as fair.
The two main types of democracy