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Alan Barth (1906–1979) was a 20th-century American journalist and author, specializing in civil liberties, best known for his 30-year stint as an editorial writer at The Washington Post as well as his books, particularly The Loyalty of Free Men (1951).

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Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

Art, Arts, Attitude, Depends, Spring, Tolerance

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Draft, Firsts, History, News, Rough Drafts

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Criticism, Delusion, Dissent, Indispensable

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

Rebellious, Silenced, Thought

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Atheism, Criticism, Dangerous, Liberty, Silencing, Thought

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Loyalty, Miscellaneous, Depends, Disloyalty, Free

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

Checks, Church, Government, Liberty, Society, State

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

Assassin, Assault, Character, Country, Free, Hero

Maria Menounos

Maria Menounos

Richard Gautier

Richard Gautier

Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds

Darren Criss

Darren Criss

Michael H. Moskow

Michael H. Moskow

Tony Benn

Tony Benn

Erich Segal

Erich Segal

Ernie Wise

Ernie Wise

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

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Crescenzio Sepe

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Natalie Cole

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Asghar Ali Engineer