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]

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

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

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.

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

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