The First Amendment Serves Not Only The

Classifications And Distinctions Based On Race Or Color Have No Moral Or Legal Validity In Our Society. They Are Contrary To Our Constitution And Laws.

None Of Us Got Where We Are Solely By Pulling Ourselves Up By Our Bootstraps.

If The First Amendment Means Anything, It Means That A State Has No Business Telling A Man, Sitting Alone In His House, What Books He May Read Or What Films He May Watch.

To The Contrary, The Government They Devised Was Defective From The Start, Requiring Several Amendments, A Civil War And Momentous Social Transformation To Attain The System Of Constitutional Government, And Its Respect For The Individual Freedoms And Human Rights, We Hold As Fundamental Today.

Patriotic Feelings Will Surely Swell, Prompting Proud Proclamations Of The Wisdom, Foresight, And Sense Of Justice Shared By The Framers And Reflected In A Written Document Now Yellowed With Age . . . [f]or Many Americans The Bicentennial Celebration Will Be Little More Than A Blind Pilgrimage To The Shrine Of The Original Document Now Stored In A Vault In The National Archives. [progressive]