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Thinking quote

By Mary Rizzo • May 14th, 2008 at 8:00 • Category: Quotes, Thinking

The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.

Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740-1792) On Freedom of the Press and its Limits, 1787.

Tagged as: Bahrdt, Human Rights, press freedom, Writing

Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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