“Without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; public discussion is a political duty.”
Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurrence in Whitney v California

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.

“You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”
Howard Zinn