| Quotes |
| "In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute." |
| "A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born iin the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for." |
| "Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirley." |
| "If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that the state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he can watch." |
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| "Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger erroneous convictions." |
| "Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process." |
| "None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our boot straps. We got here beause somebody - a parent, a teaher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots." |
| "Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at he thought of giving overnment the power to control men's minds." |
| "Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman." |
| "Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time, and in the same place." |