"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
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"I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.“
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