Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.