Bill Hicks’s Reviews > An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s > Status Update

“Some have called upon us to mute or stifle dissent in the name of patriotism and the national interest. It is an argument which has monstrously misconceived the nature and process and the greatest strength of American democracy…. It is not our privilege but our duty as patriots, to write, to speak, to organize, to oppose any President and any party and any policy at any time which we believe threatens the grandeur..