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

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

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

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.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.