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Quote from Alan Dershowitz,


"Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech
than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be.
The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose,
but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears."


By:

Alan Dershowitz (more quotes by Alan Dershowitz or books by/about Alan Dershowitz)


(1938- ) Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

Source:

Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age, 2002

Categories:

Constitution, Individual Rights, Liberty, Respect, Speech

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