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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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Dont let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesnt go with it. – Colin Powell

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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

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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

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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think. – William O. Douglas

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