Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

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

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

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.

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