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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,389 posts) Mon Jan 1, 2018, 02:18 AM Jan 2018

"It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears." - Louis D. Brandeis

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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. - Louis D. Brandeis

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"The farther a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."---George Orwell

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"It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears." - Louis D. Brandeis (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2018 OP

"It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears." AJT Jan 2018 #1

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1. "It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

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Mon Jan 1, 2018, 04:51 AM

Jan 2018

Or in the case of rightwing media, to stoke irrational fear. Free speech is a double edged sword.

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