Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

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

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.