I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

What is the quality of your intent?

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

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

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

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

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.