MondayJul 27, 2026
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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
[Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendants failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds.
Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi ... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
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