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44 Tul. L. Rev. 439 (1969-1970)
Protest, Politics and the First Amendment

handle is hein.journals/tulr44 and id is 469 raw text is: TULANE LAW REVIEW Vol. XLIV APRIL 1970 No. 3 PROTEST, POLITICS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENTf NICHOLAS DEB. KATZENBACH* I am honored by the invitation to deliver this year's Dreyfous Lecture, both because of the qualities of the man in whose memory the lecture is endowed and because of the qualities of those who have spoken in the past.' I think Mr. Dreyfous, with his great dedication to the law and to its capacity for justice, would be pleased by the progress which has been made in the past decade. Much has been done to give real meaning to the constitutional mandates of the thirteenth and four- teenth amendments. Skilled professional help is available on a scale far greater than in the past to the poor, to the black, and to other minority groups who suffer as a result of discrimination. The im- poverished criminal defendant has been given not only greater rights, but a greater ability to give those rights real meaning through the assistance of counsel. Many of our brightest young lawyers have dedicated themselves to social reform and are making their presence felt in those areas of the law so long neglected by the bar. As a result of their efforts, we are beginning to see more protection for the consumer, for the lessee, and for the modest homeowner who seeks to purchase housing in the face of discrim- inatory zoning legislation. We are now beginning to look at welfare as a right, and not as a government dole. And in the future, courts will be increasingly faced with ingenious suits seeking to enjoin further pollution of the atmosphere, or discrimination in the receipt t The text of this article was delivered by Mr. Katzenbach at the Tulane University School of Law, December 10, 1969, on the occasion of the Fourth Annual George Abel Dreyfous Lecture on Civil Liberties. * Former Attorney General and Under Secretary of State of the United States. Vice President and General Counsel for IBM Corporation. 1 The Dreyfous Lecture Series is published by the Tulane Law Review at Freund, The Challenge of the Law, 40 Tul. L. Rev. 475 (1966); Goodhart, Recognition of the Binding Nature of Law, 41 Tul. L. Rev. 769 (1967); Gris- wold, Dissent-1968, 42 Tul. L. Rev. 726 (1968).

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