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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer)
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Subject: Re: Freedom of hate
Summary: ACLU
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Date: 28 Apr 89 16:03:15 GMT
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The difference between a liberal and a civil libertarian is that a liberal will
fight for the free speech of those with whom she agrees while a civil 
libertarian will fight for the free speech of anybody.

Many liberals who were ACLU members quit after the ACLU defended the Nazis' free
speech rights, among others.

Some quotes:

"America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy

"The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not
be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but
living, honored rules of conduct amongst us...I'm glad the American Civil
Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so."
-- Senator Adlai E. Stevenson

"The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that
from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere... Indeed, it is difficult
to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the
Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights
of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised
by the majority they were at the time."
-- former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren

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