Samuel Gompers Quote

Quote from Samuel Gompers,

"The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong."

By:	Samuel Gompers (more quotes by Samuel Gompers or books by/about Samuel Gompers)
	(1850-1924)
Source:	Seventy Years of Life and Labor, 1925
Categories:	Dissent, Diversity, Rights, Skepticism, Speech
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