The great and invigorating influences in American life have been t

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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. – Oliver Wendell 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 freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. – Grace (Patricia) Kelly

Marks on paper are free — free speech — press — pictures all go together I suppose. – Georgia OKeeffe

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