Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Right to Intellectual Freedom

“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.”

Thurgood Marshall

Stanley v. Georgia (1969)

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.