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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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Abe Fortas

Abe Fortas was a prominent figure in the United States legal system, serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969. Born on June 19, 1910, in Memphis, Tennessee, he passed away on April 5, 1982. His tenure on the Court was marked by significant decisions and notable controversies, including his resignation amidst allegations of improper influence. more

“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.”

“We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”

Mind Heart Matter Would Be Order Deals Attitude Rich Diversity Intellectual Shadow Tests Mere Substance Individualism Exceptional Occasional Abnormal Eccentricity Cultural Diversity

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”

Knows Kind Cases Materials Involved Succeed Description Pornography Motion Pictures Obscenity Shorthand

Author:Potter Stewart

“Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.”

School Order Easy Subjects Authority Setting Settings Classroom Evident Maintaining Restriction Maintaining Order

Author:Byron White

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