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

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

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.

What is the quality of your intent?

Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]

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

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.