If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.