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Harry A. Blackmun Quotes

Best Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun (Top 8)

  1. Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
  2. In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
  3. The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
  4. By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
  5. If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
  6. Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
  7. What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
  8. We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.