Jul 14, 2014
If it had not been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.
Taken from Eugene V. Debs's Speech of Sedition, a speech, given instead of calling upon a single witness, that defended against the charges levied against Debs for exercising the right to free speech in the 1920's. Wonderful and moving and worth the full read (it's on Wikipedia).