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Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1958 to 1981. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.

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The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Deprivation, Law, Property, Speak, Speaks Out, Truth

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Abortion, Different, Medical, Potential, Procedure

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

Growth, People, Personal, Property, Rights

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Against, Believe, Force, Law, Leadership

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government. . . Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid. . . Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment. "

Action, Government, Invalid, Practice, Race, Racism

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.

Acceptance, Dedicated, Law, Organic, Power, Powerful

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Censorship In Books, Freedom Of Speech, Hallmark, Lack, Reflects, Society

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Cruel, Death, Lightning, Unusual, Way

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Attempt, Kind, Know, Motion, Obscenity, Succeed

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

Court, May, Poor, Say, Today

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Facts, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Interdependence, Liberty

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

Forgotten, Rug, Sunday, Swept, Togetherness

The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human expression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "free trade in ideas. " To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants. It secures as well the liberty of each man to decide for himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of free choice.

Ideas, Liberty, Men, Protects, Publish, Writing

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Citizens, Different, Eccentric, Save, Solely, Unattractive

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Difference, Differences, Ethics, Knowing

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness. . .

Arrogant, Independent, Magazines, Strong, Way

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

Free, Home, Men, Personal, Retreat, Rights

For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

Home, Office, People, Preserve, Protects