William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Society, Congress, Physical

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Government, Rather, Rights

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Attitude, Jobs, Attitudes

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Respect, Decision, Congress

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Sex, Interest, Material

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Person, Fairness, Process

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Life, Great, Sex

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Family, Home, Ideas

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Read, Current, Justices

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Time, History, Mean

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: April 25, 1906

Died: July 24, 1997

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