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 people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected…
– Justice Hugo Black
US Supreme Court, 1947