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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.

Potter Stewart

Quotes of Potter Stewart:

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Differences Ethics Knowing

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Abortion Different Medical

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Kind Obscenity Succeed