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“Dershowitz is not only a remarkable liar and slanderer, but also an extreme opponent of elementary civil rights.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Noam Chomsky http://www.chomsky.info/letters/20060817.htm.

“There’s no question. My biggest enemies are the hard left. The hard left poses a far greater danger to the American future than the hard right. I’m not worried about a few dozen people with Swastikas who want to replace the Jews, because they’re our past. They have no resonance on the University campuses today. But the hard, hard left? Anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity, intolerance for speech, it’s the future. These are our leaders… And that’s why we have to worry much more about what’s going on, on university campuses, than in Charlottesville.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Interview by Dennis Prager in No Safe Spaces 2019 documentary. Clip from film published on Feb 12, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc86fPirz3A

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“Rights come from human experience, particularly experiences with injustice… In a word, rights come from wrongs.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age, Little, Brown & Company, New York, NY, (2002) p. 4

“The First Amendment is not limited to the right to be right; it also enshrines the right to be wrong.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

“The Wrong Response to Holtzman”, New York Times, Dec. 30, 1987

“If there can be agreement that certain rights are essential to reduce the chances of perfect injustice, that constitutes the beginning of a solid theory of rights.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Source: Shouting Fire: Civil liberties in a Turbulent Age (2002), p. 34

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