Thurgood Marshall

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."

"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."

"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."