But they think they know it. And their idea is all the same. You can trace it to the same thing, doesn’t make any difference what it is, what their experience is, or why they’re mad with the Court. It’s all because each one of them believes that the Constitution prohibits that which they think should be prohibited, and it permits that which they think should be permitted.

Hugo Black (1886-1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937-71)

Interview with Eric Serverid and Martin Agronsky, CBS News (9 Dec 1968)

On the public's misunderstanding of the Constitution. Reprinted in "Newsmakers, Objection Overruled," Newsweek (9 Dec 1968), and in "Justice Black and the Bill of Rights," Southwestern University Law Review (1977). See also here.