Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1736
AUTHOR:
Arthur J Goldberg, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
QUOTATION:
The concept of neutrality can lead to … a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
ATTRIBUTION:
Concurring but mitigating opinion in 8-1 ruling that declared religious exercises in public schools unconstitutional, 17 Jun 63
