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It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous. Clarence Thomas

You People Black Become Say Would Some Seem Cease Want Successful Ridiculous

The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic. David Josiah Brewer

Day Science Power Orator Preserved Indefinable Phonograph Critic Some Touch Magnetic Seize Never Cruel Knife Weird Caught Real Perpetuate Real Power Wonderfully May Which Dissecting Save

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines. David Josiah Brewer

Nature Will Live Prestige Higher Never Develop He Simply Along Because Always His Lines Social Lower Who Honest Position

Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names. David Josiah Brewer

Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly. David Josiah Brewer

I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman. David Josiah Brewer

It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil. David Josiah Brewer

Woman Wife Evil Christianity Mormonism Sacred Sustained Polygamy Place Which Proclaimed Social Lower Level

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past. David Souter

History Past About Provides Antidote Cynicism

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens. David Souter

Constitution Obligations Congress State Local Local Governments Citizens Powers Executive Well Exercises Judicial Impose Governments Affirmative Officers May Ordinary

I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain. David Souter

Life Time Try Decision Whatever Rose Living Summer Later About More No Regrets Remain Weeks Retired Drove Couple Supreme Supreme Court Court Prior Years Normal Normal Life North Might Regrets Washington Recess

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism. David Souter

Time Me World Nation Past Out Intrinsic Seemingly Merely Look Attraction Past Time Optimism Escapism May Little Desire

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. David Souter

People Problems Will Worry Responsible About Know Who

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. David Souter

Future Democracy Pessimist About Am Optimist American

If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty. David Souter

Equality Liberty Enemies Decision Secret Our Broadcast Easy Atomic Wins Make Always Trump Going Even Speech

For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision. David Souter

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. David Souter

Power Congress Interstate Effect Commerce Legislate Substantial Regard Aggregate Activity

The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine. David Souter

Benefits Settled Religious Clause Doctrine Schools Era Modern Modern Era Establishment Which Board Public Inaugurated Funding

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.' David Souter

Gun Congress Response Passed Brady Epidemic Act Violence

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide. David Souter

Time First Ellis Settlement High City Lies Disappeared New Feet Tide Mostly Island Shells New Jersey York Tip New York Manhattan Which Sand Mud Mile Harbor European Jersey Nearly

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. David Souter

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