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

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

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

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

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

Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.