To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.