In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.

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

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.

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

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.

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