March 23, 2004

nice thought

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“If there is a bedrock prin­ci­ple of the First Amend­ment,
it is that the govern­ment may not prohi­bit the expres­sion of an idea
simply because society finds the idea itself offen­sive or
disa­greea­ble.”
 – Jus­tice William J. Bren­nan
(1906 – 1997) U. S. Supreme Court Jus­tice
Source: Texas vs. John­son, 1989
Thanks to Gern.

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