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Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. Quotes

Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting

Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
New York, Father, Hands
Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
Song, New York, Freedom Of Speech
Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
Effort, Freedom Of Speech, Process
Speech at the University of Oregon, 2004.

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