Abe Fortas Quotes

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

  Abe Fortas

  Teacher, Rights, Expression

  Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

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

  Abe Fortas

  Lonely, Jobs, Men

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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.

  Abe Fortas

  School, Expression, Order

  Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969.

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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 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.

  Abe Fortas

  Acceptance, Expression, Law

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

  Abe Fortas

  Accepting, Monopoly, Dissent

  Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning dissent and civil disobedience”, World Publishing Co.

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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 emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  Abe Fortas

  Freedom, Acceptance, Men

  Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”

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• La injuria innecesaria, despreocupada, gratuita y deliberada del tipo infligido por el reportaje gráfico de Life no es un instrumento esencial del periodismo responsable.

  Abe Fortas

  Essentials, Stories, Journalism

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

  Abe Fortas

  Religious, Government, Neutrality

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• Para un juez de este tribunal supremo [el Tribunal Supremo de EE.UU.], la oportunidad de autodescubrirse y la ocasión de revelarse es grande.

  Abe Fortas

  Opportunity, Discovery, Self

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