“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.Charles Evans Hughes
“General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
“To separate [black children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone…. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.Earl Warren
“Remorse is nothing more than a foresight of the bodily pain to which some crime has exposed us.Claude Adrien Helvétius