The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. – Author Unknown

Consequences flow from a justices interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order – Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. – Rita Mae Brown