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Clarence Darrow1857–1938

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Clarence Darrow on freedom

Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p.17

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