Quote by Colin Powell
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outr

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. – Colin Powell

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A dream doesnt become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work. – Colin Powell

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Wouldnt it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? – Colin Powell

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you dont agree with. – Eleanor Holmes Norton

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes

We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart. – Heywood Broun

The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. – Junius

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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? – Henry David Thoreau, letter to H.G.O. Blake, 16 November 1857

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