William J. Brennan, Jr.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.