Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.