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My Faith Is That The Only Soul A Man Must Save Is His Own.

Since When Have We Americans Been Expected To Bow Submissively To Authority And Speak With Awe And Reverence To Those Who Represent Us?

A People Who Extend Civil Liberties Only To Preferred Groups Start Down The Path Either To Dictatorship Of The Right Or The Left.

The Constitution And The Bill Of Rights We Designed To Get The Government Off The Backs Of The People -- All The People. Those Great Documents Guarantee To Us All The Rights To Personal And Spiritual Self-fulfillment. But That Guarantee Is Not Self-executing. As Nightfall Does Not Come All At Once, Neither Does Oppression. In Both Instances, There Is A Twilight When Everything Remains Seemingly Unchanged. And It Is In Such A Twilight That We All Must Be Most Aware Of The Change In The Air -- However Slight -- Lest We Become Unwitting Victims Of The Darkness.

A Function Of Free Speech Under Our System Of Government Is To Invite Dispute. It May Indeed Best Serve Its High Purpose When It Invites A Condition Of Unrest, Creates Dissatisfaction With Conditions As They Are, Or Even Stirs People To Anger. Speech Is Often Provocative And Challenging. It May Strike At Prejudices And Preconceptions And Have Profound Unsettling Effects As It Passes For Acceptance Of An Idea.