Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1702
AUTHOR:
Warren E Burger, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court
QUOTATION:
There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right” and the Amish and others like them are “wrong.” A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
ATTRIBUTION:
Majority opinion in 6-1 ruling that freed members of religious sects from compulsory school attendance, 15 May 72
