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mahatmakanejeeves

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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 [View all]

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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



Louis Brandeis

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



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