"Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that……" — William J. Brennan
"Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent."
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43 Quotes by William J. Brennan
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own,…
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