The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Justice Anthony Kennedy More Quotes by Justice Anthony Kennedy More Quotes From Justice Anthony Kennedy The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy … Justice Anthony Kennedy When you are dealing with a governmental agency, many critical points are matters of public concern, and is it not true that many teachers strongly disagree with the union position on teacher tenure, on merit pay, on merit promotion, on classroom size? Justice Anthony Kennedy top-news You're again talking about a whole class of persons whose speech has been silenced. Justice Anthony Kennedy top-news It can render litigation more burdensome for everyone involved. Justice Anthony Kennedy company-news This definition has been with us for millennia, he succeeded in making everybody feel less than certain. Justice Anthony Kennedy politics That was very interesting, but it's just a wrong premise. Justice Anthony Kennedy top-news This definition has been with us for millennia, and I think it's very difficult for this court to say, oh well, we know better. Justice Anthony Kennedy top-news The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. Justice Anthony Kennedy
