"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."

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Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

Floyd Abrams

#Years Quotes #Law Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013
“Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.”
“We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.”
“The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry--is not even a "subject"--but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.”
“There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.”
“If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.”
“Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.”

Source : James Gates Percival, James Gordon Brooks, James Lawson, Henry Denison, George Robertson (jr. of Savannah, Ga) (1828). “The Columbian lyre: or, Specimens of transatlantic poetry”, p.228
“Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.”

Source : Statement to the Volksgerichtshof [People's Court] of Judge Roland Freisler, February 21, 1943.

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