"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
-Louis D. Brandeis
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"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.“
-Louis D. Brandeis
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