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Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,


"Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from bondage of irrational fear."


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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. or books by/about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)


(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"

Source:

dissenting Gitlow v. People of State of New York 1925

Categories:

Government, Independence, Power

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