“I think the conviction of appellant or anyone else for exhibiting a motion picture abridges freedom of the press as safeguarded by the First Amendment, which is made obligatory on the States by the Fourteenth.”
Associate Justice Hugo Black, Supreme Court, in Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no
business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he
may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage
rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s
minds.”
Justice Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court, in Stanley v. Georgia, 1969
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