Truth Is More Than A Mental Exercise.

Today's Constitution Is A Realistic Document Of Freedom Only Because Of Several Corrective Amendments. Those Amendments Speak To A Sense Of Decency And Fairness That I And Other Blacks Cherish.

It Is Now Well Established That The Constitution Protects The Right To Receive Information And Ideas. ... This Right To Receive Information And Ideas, Regardless Of Their Social Worth, ... Is Fundamental To Our Free Society.

Equal Means Getting The Same Thing, At The Same Time And In The Same Place.

None Of Us Got Where We Are Solely By Pulling Ourselves Up By Our Bootstraps.

History Teaches That Grave Threats To Liberty Often Come In Times Of Urgency, When Constitutional Rights Seem Too Extravagant To Endure.