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29 quotes

1963

★ 6.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

Hugo Black

Everson v. Board of Education · 1947

★ 6.8

Speech · Political speech

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and all are precious in God's sight. America is not like a blanket, one piece of unbroken cloth-the same color, the same texture, the same size. It is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

Address to Democratic National Convention, 1988 · 1984

★ 6.0

Song · Country music

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whinin' low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hank Williams

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry · 1949

★ 5.4

Song · Country music

I can settle down and be doin' just fine Till I hear an old freight rollin' down the line, Then I hurry straight home and pack And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack I love you baby, but you gotta understand When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man.

Hank Williams

Ramblin' Man · 1951

★ 5.3

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

Hugo Black

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · 1964

★ 5.3

Essay

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

Optimism · 1903

★ 4.5

Letter

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.

Helen Keller

1891

★ 3.8

Religious literature

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

1940

★ 3.8

Novel

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

Novel

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

Novel

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institiution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockeffeler, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

Novel

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and storm, towering and unscathed.

Osceola

1836

★ 3.5

Lecture

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Hugo Black

1960

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook · Soul music

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find, Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

Ray Charles

Georgia on my Mind · 1960

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller

1902

★ 2.0

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Satchel Paige

1953

★ 2.0

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

John Lewis

2006

★ 2.0

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

1929

★ 1.9

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