Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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Joseph Fort Newton
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Unknown
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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George Gordon Byron
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.
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Janvier ChouteuChando
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