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• Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself.
  It is a hallmark of an authoritative regime." -- Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewa...
• The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state.
  That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach....
• The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere.
  .. Indeed, it is difficult to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised by the majority they were at the time....
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• It is a sad commentary on today's society that this fortune has to be classified as "offensive" simply because it contains the word "fuck".
• The first measure of a free society is *not* that its government performs the will of the majority.
  We had that in 1930s Germany and in the South until the '60s....
• The voice of the majority is not proof of justice.