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Freethought of the Day
Would you like to start your day on a freethought note? Freethought of the Day is a daily freethought calendar brought to you courtesy of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, highlighting birthdates, quotes and other historic tidbits.
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April 25
William J. Brennan (Quote)
“For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptibility of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs."
"If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.”—Justice William J. Brennan Jr., born on April 25, 1906, in a speech given in 1985 rebutting the desire of then-Attorney General Edwin Meese to "resurrect the original meaning of constitutional provisions." Brennan died in 1997.
Compiled by Annie Laurie Gaylor
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