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Abraham "Abe" Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1965 to 1969.

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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 to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

School, Expression, Order, Unpleasantness, Person

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 theory against another. . . The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

Religious, Government, Neutrality, Mandates

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

Deliberate, Essentials, Injury, Journalism, Stories

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

Lonely, Jobs, Men, Job, Judging, Entire

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

Accepting, Monopoly, Dissent, Freedom, Tolerate

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.

Opportunity, Discovery, Self, Supreme, Justice

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

Teacher, Rights, Expression, Freedom, Constitutional, Shed

Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim. . . . We have alternatives to violence.

Acceptance, Organization, Expression, Latitude, People, Society

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 of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Acceptance, Emancipation, Freedom, Imposition, Life, Men

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Laurence Shahlaei

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Georges Bidault

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Ricky Schroder

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Honus Wagner

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