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Quote from Carl Friedrich Bahrdt,


"The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is,
just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that,
as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes."


By:

Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (more quotes by Carl Friedrich Bahrdt or books by/about Carl Friedrich Bahrdt)


(1740-1792)

Source:

On Freedom of The Press and Its Limits, 1787

Categories:

Censorship, Dissent, Individual Rights, Individualism, Press, Protest, Reason

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