Author: Theodore Schroeder

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Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781332790357

Excerpt from Free Speech for Radicals: Seven Essays All this is true because the great mass are indiffer ent to the constitutionally guaranteed liberties of others, and so allow sordid self -interest and bigotry to add one limitation after another, until all freedom will be destroyed by judicial amendments to our charters of liberty. Furthermore, to most persons, the word liberty is only an empty sound, the meaning of which they know not, because they have never learned the reasons underlying it. Thus they are too stupid to be able to differentiate between their disapproval of an opinion and their opponent's right to disagree with them. They love their own power to suppress intellectual di erences more than eu other's liberty of expressing them, and more than the progressive clarification of human conceptions of truth, which can only come through freedom of dis cussion. Such persons specially owe to themselves, and to those against whom they are encouraging in justice, that they should read the defenses of liberty as made by the master-minds of the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."