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

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

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.

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

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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.