"Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority."

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Source : John Paul Stevens, University of Chicago. Law School (1992). “The Bill of Rights: a century of progress”

John Paul Stevens

#Majority Quotes #Speak Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Oh, I know what the ladies like.”
“A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.”
“Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.”
“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”
“The moment we become uncomfortable is the time we should confess.”
“A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.”
“I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.”
“I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.”

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