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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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