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"The burning of an author’s books,
imprisonment for opinion’s sake,
has always been the tribute that an ignorant age
pays to the genius of its time."
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Joseph Lewis
(1889-1968) American freethinker, atheist activist, publisher, litigator
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Voltaire: The Incomparable Infidel, 1929
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Categories: | Censorship, Crime, Dissent, Free Thought, History, Individualism, Media, Press, Prison, Prohibition, Protest, Punishment, Speech, Wisdom |
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-- Joe, Rochester, MI 
-- Anonymous