Potter Stewart Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Life: January 23, 1915 - December 7, 1985
Birthday: January 23
Death: December 7
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."
topic: Race, Government, Practice, Equal Protection
