Portal:Freedom of speech/Selected quote/87

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And I honor the man who is willing to sink / Half his present repute for the freedom to think, / And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, / Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak.

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— James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics (1848), Pt. V - Cooper, st. 3.

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