In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

I need to retire from retirement.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.