Quotes by Abe Fortas

Abe Fortas

American lawyer and jurist

Lived from: 1910 - 1982

Born: 19 june 1910 Died: 5 april 1982

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