Quote of the Day........

All ideas having even the slightest 

redeeming social importance --

unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, 

even ideas hateful to the

prevailing climate of opinion, 

have the full protection of the

guarantees [of the First Amendment].

-- Justice William J. Brennan
(1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: Roth v. United States, 1957

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"Since when do you have to 

agree with people

to defend them from injustice?"

-- Lillian Hellman(1905-1984).

 American playwright and memoirist.

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You seem ... to consider the judges as 

the ultimate arbiters of 

all constitutional questions; 

a very dangerous doctrine indeed, 

and one which would place us under 

the despotism of an oligarchy... 

The Constitution has erected 

no such single tribunal.

-- Thomas Jefferson.
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, 
drafted the Declaration of Independence.