Equality under the law to millionaire and pauper, factory owner and worker, is the test of a successful democracy… justice for all and special privilege to none…
– Hugo Black
Clay County Courthouse
Senate Campaign, 1926
…the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish.
– Justice Hugo Black
US Supreme Court, 1961