Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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.” ~ Justice Potter Stewart (1915-1985) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesSource: Walker v. Birmingham, 1967