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Identity Quote by Abe Fortas

“For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.” quote by Abe Fortas — Download Open image

“For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.”

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Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance…

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Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

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“Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to…

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In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able…

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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

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Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or…

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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the…

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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

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