Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

Belief

Government

Separation Of Church And State

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

Abortion

Moral

Spiritual

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.

Ethos

Hands

Speech

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Heart

House

Mind

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Death Penalty

Human Rights

Tinkering

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. … I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Death Penalty

Motivational

Penalties

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored – indeed, I have struggled – along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court’s delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Majority

Needs

Years

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is – and the death penalty – must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

Effort

May

Optimistic

I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn’t been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.

Answers

Race

Real

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

Being Yourself

Humility

People

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Abortion

Abortion Laws

Adequate

Alaska

Answers

Anxiety

Association

Atheism

Being Yourself

Belief

Clients

Cost

Court

Death Penalty

Decision

Difficult Questions

Effort

Equality

Ethos

Execution

Exercise

Feminist

Flaws

Fool

Fraud

Fundamentals

Government

Hands

Heart

Home

House

Human Rights

Humility

Husband

Individual

Intimate Relationships

Justice

Law

Lawyer

Majority

May

Men

Mind

Moral

Motivational

Needs

Nine

Optimistic

Order

Penalties

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Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

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.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. … I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn’t been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

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