Porter Versfelt III
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Once A Barefoot Boy: A Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier: The Poet Who Changed American History
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“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
― Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
― Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.
[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
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[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
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“Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.”
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“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."
[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]”
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[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]”
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“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."
[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]”
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[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]”
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