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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
- French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778). |
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"Freedom of speech, without responsibility, undermines that freedom"
- George Bernard Shaw. |
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" THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Pastor Martin Niemöller speaking after WWII on the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...) |
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