![New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today\'s version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.](/fotos/0d/0dbd53751c00e0784799008b44471a77.webp)
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
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I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.
Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.
Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
