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Top 15 Harry A. Blackmun Quotes (2025 Update)

Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.”

1. “Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.”

— Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “If there is any truth to the old proverb that “one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.”

2. “If there is any truth to the old proverb that “one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,” the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn’t been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.”

3. “I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn’t been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.”

4. “Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.”

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

— Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “The death penalty experiment has failed.”

7. “The death penalty experiment has failed.”

— Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “We’re all eccentrics. We’re nine prima donnas.”

8. “We’re all eccentrics. We’re nine prima donnas.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.”

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

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some.”

10. “A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.”

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

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “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 Constitutions protection of privacy.”

12. “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 Constitutions protection of privacy.”

— Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.”

13. “When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.”

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

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.”

16. “This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.”

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Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “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.”

17. “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 A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun Quote: “Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there or damage it more than that. I think one has to be vigilant and constantly on the alert.”

18. “Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there or damage it more than that. I think one has to be vigilant and constantly on the alert.”

— Harry A. Blackmun

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