"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
John Milton on Freedom of Speech
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2010-12-10 03:00
In the face of widespread condemnation of WikiLeaks and the arrest of its founder Julian Assange, we can see that freedom of speech, of information, and of the press is still under attack. John Milton's arguments in 1644 still stand as an eloquent defense of press freedom.
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