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Brandeis University Promulgates an Edict Against Thinking
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
-Justice Brandeis, 1927
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Brandeis teaches a language of fear - Scary enough at $60,000 a year!
Justice Brandeis on freedom of speech (bureaubrandeis.com)
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