After Each Perceived Security Crisis

You In The Media Ought To Be Ashamed Of Yourselves To Call The Provisions And The Guarantees Of The Bill Of Rights 'technicalities'. They're Not. We Are What We Are Because Of Those Guarantees.

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

The Principle Inherent In The Clause That Prohibits Pointless Infliction Of Excessive Punishment When Less Severe Punishment Can Adequately Achieve The Same Purposes Invalidates The Punishment.

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.

Capital Punishment...treats Members Of The Human Race...as Objects To Be Toyed With And Discarded.