Justice Hugo L. Black Quote

Quote from Justice Hugo L. Black,

"What finally emerges from the ‘clear and present danger’ cases
is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious
and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...
It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language,
read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow."

By:	Justice Hugo L. Black (more quotes by Justice Hugo L. Black or books by/about Justice Hugo L. Black)
	(1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
Source:	Bridges v. California
Categories:	Censorship, Constitution, Dissent, Justice, Press, Prohibition, Propaganda, Security, Speech
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