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

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

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

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

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

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

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