The world is not at all short on this type of thing, it turns out. All down the years, words have been flung like pieces of shit, only to get stuck on a truck bumper with up-yours pride. Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks.
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its subjects are free from all obligations to it.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?”
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