There Is No Such Thing

If There Is A Bedrock Principle Underlying The First Amendment, It Is That The Government May Not Prohibit The Expression Of An Idea Simply Because Society Finds The Idea Itself Offensive Or Disagreeable.

Lawyers, Before Any Other Group, Must Continue To Point Out How The System Is Really Working-how It Actually Affects Real People. They Must Constantly Demonstrate To Courts And Legislatures Alike The Tragic Results Of Legal Nonintervention. They Must Highlight How Legal Doctrines No Longer Bear Any Relation To Reality, Whether In Landlord And Tenant Law, Holder In Due Course Law, Or Any Other Law. In Sum, Lawyers Must Bring Real Morality Into The Legal Consciousness

With Respect To The Death Penalty, I Believe That A Majority Of The Supreme Court Will One Day Accept That When The State Punishes With Death, It Denies The Humanity And Dignity Of The Victim And Transgresses The Prohibition Against Cruel And Unusual Punishment. That Day Will Be A Great Day For Our Country, For It Will Be A Great Day For Our Constitution.

Debate On Public Issues Should Be Uninhibited, Robust And Wide-open And That...may Well Include Vehement, Caustic, And Sometimes Unpleasantly Sharp Attacks On Government And Public Officials.

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.