History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We must dissent from the fear.