Soul Food: Week of September 1, 2024

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values …

Sunday: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire; Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906 book “The Friends of Voltaire.”

Monday: Everyone is in favor of free speech … but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. Winston Churchill

Tuesday: You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself. George Orwell

Wednesday: Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Benjamin Franklin

Thursday: The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway

Friday: Free Speech is a Human Right. Martin Luther King

Saturday: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God, Almighty, we are free at last! Martin Luther King; Spiritual

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