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These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
- Potter Stewart

At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a freeman means at least this much, then the 13th Amendment made a promise it cannot keep.
- Potter Stewart
