Louis Brandeis Quote

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.


in Whitney v. California (1927)


Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of...

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of...

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of...

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of...