A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

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

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

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

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

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

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.