People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.
In sum, the Court’s conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court’s own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
Dissents speak to a future age.
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.
You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.
You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.