OnTheParadeGround: March 2014

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Speech & Civic Discourse Quotes

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. Colin Powell

Civic discourse is the rhetorical fretwork of democracy, the supporting lattice on which democracy emerges, clings, and grows strong. Yet civic discourse is not all one thing. It oscillates between the extremes of consensus building and conflict, creating the inevitable and welcomed agitations of civic exchange and churn in a healthy democracy.
Is Civic Discourse Still Alive? David D Cooper

Freedom needs the assistance of political will and individual conviction in order to take root. And once it takes root, it must be cared for. Challenges to Democracy Building -2007

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