Abe Fortas Quotes

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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.
• Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
• 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.
• Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
• 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 religious…
• Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation…
• 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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