Harry Andrew Blackmun Quotes

• 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.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

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

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• 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.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

• In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

  Harry Andrew Blackmun

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Harry Andrew Blackmun (11)

Birth:	12th November, 1908
Death:	4th March, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge

About

Harry Andrew Blackmun was born in Nashville, Illinois, USA. He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. Appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon, he ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade. He attended Harvard College on scholarship, earning an A.B. summa cum laude in mathematics and graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1929. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1932. He served in a variety of positions including private counsel, law clerk, and adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota Law School and William Mitchell College of Law.

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