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Quote from Justice Potter Stewart,


"The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme.
Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech,
to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble,
it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face."


By:

Justice Potter Stewart (more quotes by Justice Potter Stewart or books by/about Justice Potter Stewart)


(1915-1985) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Source:

Walker v. Birmingham, 1967

Categories:

Constitution, Disobedience, Dissent, Freedom, Liberty, Religion, Resistance, Responsibility, Revolution, Speech, Spirituality

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